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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, while I laud the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance for being fairly innovative, I believe he is yet to prove that he can actually walk the talk. The serious challenge, once we go to implementation, is the apparent thinking within the bureaucracy that they monopolize all the knowledge on implementation of projects. We are hearing statements to the effect that they intend to tell us what to buy, how to buy, how to proceed. We are hearing very confusing noise! I think it would be proper if the Ministry actually consults properly with Parliament so that the relevant Committees can give advice that would not lead into disillusionments in terms of implementation. There have been serious bottlenecks in line Ministries implementing projects. In fact, that is why development has stalled in this country for several years. Money is voted, and I am aware of one project in my constituency which was allocated Kshs6 million for the youth centre. The money has been returned to the Ministry. I have no idea why. I do not know! Why do they do these things? We cheat the youth that we are going to build these things, the money comes and it goes back to the Treasury! Is this what the Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 and, maybe, the Ministry of Finance intends to do with this yearâs Budget? We are also aware of certain very noble ideas that came along, for example, the one on sports for the youth. We believed that it was going to be managed reasonably well. But the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs has confused the exercise and up to now, even the youth are complaining in our constituencies. We are told that we are patrons, but we do not even"
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