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    "id": 1451054,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Aldai, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Marianne Kitany",
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    "content": "merged, and therefore, they are not going to get personal emoluments, which we agree. However, some of the money have already been allocated to certain development projects. For example, Comex is a very critical component in the agricultural sector. We are giving fertiliser and I have heard the Chairperson of the Committee on Budget and Appropriations saying that we have put about Ksh7 billion in the fertiliser subsidy. When those crops are harvested from the farms, these farmers need to trade with that commodity because many of them, especially where I come from in the Rift Valley, store the maize in their stores where it ends up being eaten by weevils and after seven months that harvest is a waste. The Comex system, which is a trading platform and the Warehouse Receipt System would have allowed farmers to trade with their crops and get money to do the next crop cycle as they wait for the prices of their crops to go up. When we remove that development expenditure completely from the Budget and give that money to, I do not know where, then we are not looking at the full cycle of development of a country where we need to take care of the farmers. We are also talking about creating employment for the youth and a lot of those employment opportunities were within the trade sector because most of the sectors are talking about Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), industrialisation and investments. The Committee on Trade had already looked at most of the issues that are going to help the young people get employment. Looking at the rationalised Budget that is before the House today, most of the amendments or recommendations that have been brought by the Committee on Trade have already been ignored, and a new set of recommendations have come without consideration to the employment creation that we were trying to look at, at the time we were doing the rationalisation of the Budget. For example, the Hustler Fund which is a revolving fund, much as it had been given some money, we took a small portion of that to put into projects like Constituency Industrial Development Centres (CIDC) and other related projects that will help us within the constituencies to create employment to our youth, but that has already been rationalised. I support the rationalisation, but I think certain issues should have been looked at because as a Committee, we sat with the State departments and SAGAs to rationalise this Budget. I thank you."
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