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    "id": 1443201,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mumma",
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    "content": "come up with a saving. I believe if we relook at the budgets at all levels, we will probably save more than Kshs300 billion that they wanted to raise from the taxes. What the National Assembly and the Senate should be doing is the big job of allowing our experts, whether in civil society among the Gen Z, to openly and transparently audit the budget items one by one for the Executive, Parliament and the Judiciary. We must put money where we need essential services. Where we are wasting money, we must remove it because that is budgeted corruption. The President said that he will borrow to cater for the deficit. I recommend that we do not allow one more shilling to be borrowed until we put in place a system that can ensure accountability and transparency of our debt. I suggest not borrowing even one shilling for financial year 2024/2025. Secondly, I propose that we rationalize the expenditure. We need to find out how much hospitality of Kshs863 million looks like in one office. Clearly, that is budgeted corruption and the money must be moved aside. We need to start asking questions about the confidential budget and what it normally does. When doing an audit, I would like to find out how much was set aside for hospitality and how much was the confidential budget in the previous year and what the money did. We need to start doing that. As we reduce our expenditure, another thing we need to do is to find out how to identify duplicated jobs. I have just given one example. We have the NACADA dealing with drugs, but you give the Deputy President Kshs400 million to deal with drugs. We have county governments doing county roads, but you have NG-CDF being given money to do county roads. We have the national Government giving bursaries, but you have the President and governors giving bursaries, yet education is a national Government function. We will save a lot by looking at duplicated items to save that money and send it to essential services. As we do so, we must not reduce the budgets for social spending that keeps the dignity of the human beings in this country. Our development strategy must be people- centred. We must provide education. We can only keep increasing our budget for education. We must provide better health services. We must keep increasing the budgets for health. We cannot say we are not going to pay interns or doctors, yet we have millions for"
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