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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Aldai, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Marianne Kitany",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise in support of the Supplementary Budget Estimates with amendments. We are living in interesting times. The people who went to the streets, the so-called Gen Z, raised issues. Among the issues they raised are wastage, corruption and others. They said that we had to reject the Finance Bill that had the Budget Estimates that we had put across based on it. The Supplementary Budget Estimates have come to ensure that our Budget is within the timeframe. I want to raise a few issues. We want to get employment in this country. If I look at the budget reductions that have been done, much as I agree, I would have wished that the reduction in the recurrent expenditure was the converse, same as the development expenditure. What do I mean by that? If the recurrent expenditure had been reduced by Ksh107 million and the development expenditure by Ksh38 billion, in my view, I would have preferred development expenditure be reduced by a smaller percentage to create opportunities for employment of our young people. We are talking about creating employment. Much as we are saying that we have to cut the cloth to fit our size, we also have to consider that we have so many young people in the streets today whose numbers have doubled since 2013 or tripled since 1965. Therefore, even as we do our budget, we should consider that development is what brings more employment, more than recurrent expenditure because a lot of it goes into salaries and such things. The other issue I wanted to raise is that, as the Committee on Budget and Appropriations, we were given the Budget Estimates to reconsider which was already reduced then and therefore, the ceilings we were dealing with were already reduced. We invited Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGA) and State departments to give their views. We understand and appreciate the tough economic times we are living in because some of those SAGAs are being The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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