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    "id": 145886,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Motion. Since Thursday last week when the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance read the 2009/2010 Budget, there have been many reactions, compliments, praises and a few critics. One thing that we have to accept is that no Budget in the world, whether it is organizational or personal, is ever 100 per cent perfect. What is important is acceptability. A Budget that enjoys wider acceptability passes the test of being good. I want to contribute to this Motion touching on two critical areas. The first is the expenditure side and then I will conclude by touching on the revenue side. The expenditure side is the strong point of this Budget. I know that it would be very easy for people to ask the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance to try and cut on the Recurrent Expenditure. Theoretically, it is easy but practically it is quite a task. By reducing the proportionate share of the Recurrent Budget as a total of the entire Budget from 74 per cent to around 70 per cent is good enough. We must say that even though the total Budget is standing at an all time high of Kshs867 billion, but by shifting more resources to Development Expenditure, it is focusing more on medium and long term developments, which I think as a country is where we should go."
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