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    "id": 1456664,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Othaya, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Michael Wainaina",
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    "content": "What did we miss most? The people do not have information about the Finance Bill. I try to engage with them. They do not understand that we collect money from the business community. They do not know that we will not collect the money or revenue we are complaining about when businesses close. We need to have time to educate our people when we are working on the Budget. People from rural areas need to know why we have the Budget. I tried to engage with my constituents when the President said he would borrow Ksh1 trillion. They were asking why the Ksh1 trillion yet it is only Ksh360 billion we are supposed to collect. They do not understand why the President talked about an extra Ksh1 trillion. Why? We are not engaging them to understand that the Ksh360 billion is additional to what we are supposed to borrow. We need to engage people to understand that the Ksh1 trillion the President will borrow is because we have not collected the Ksh360 billion that we are supposed to collect this financial year. People from committees on finance and budget work on budgets in county governments. They give an open cheque when they give money out there. They appropriate, use the money and do anything that they want. However, you cannot see any development on the ground when you go to the rural areas. I engaged with people back in my constituency. I told them we can see more development with the little money we get from the NG-CDF than with county governments. In as much as we are supposed to be devolving funds, the mwananchi is not feeling it. We need to change our approach. We have to check records from the time of Independence. The big people who are accused of stealing our money in this country are not in any prison. The people who are accused of stealing chicken are in prisons. The people who are accused of misappropriating funds are buying big cars, parcels of land and everything else. They are very comfortable. Even if Parliament is doing its work, some institutions have failed to take those people where they are supposed to be. We will change this country if we do that. One of our colleagues has said that we need to change our laws. He wants us to remove those who misappropriate funds from ministries and other institutions so that other corrupt people will also stop misappropriating funds. 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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