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    "id": 1459588,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1459588/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Teso South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mary Emaase",
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    "content": "As the Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee has said, our expenditure has been slightly reduced by Ksh145 billion. We will need to borrow an additional Ksh170 billion to cover the deficit. Going forward, we need to continue reviewing our Budget to identify areas of overlap, duplication, and wasteful expenditure. While we are proud to have managed to retain some expenditures, our biggest challenge in the country right now is unemployment. Our young people are on the streets because of unemployment. Therefore, we need to continuously look for money by tightening our revenue collection measures. We need to review our Appropriations-in- Aid and oversee our expenditures. I am confident that we can further re-arrange it to save more money, which can be used to employ more teachers. While visiting my constituency yesterday, I had a discussion with teachers who were wondering why there has been an increase in salaries for police officers while their own salaries have not been raised. They also raised concerns about the need for more teachers to be hired. I believe we should allocate more funds in the second Supplementary Budget to address this issue and hire more teachers. Although Ksh8.7 billion has been earmarked for the confirmation of interns, we still need to increase teacher employment and also consider hiring more doctors. We need to look for money to pay likurus and other Kenyans who are giving services to people in this country. We have just given police officers a salary increment, but you are aware they live in very deplorable conditions and structures. There are police stations that do not have furniture. The Ministry of Interior and National Administration needs more funding so that it can address the issue. I also applaud and commend the Budget and Appropriations Committee because it has managed to maintain some of the allocations to the fertiliser subsidy programme and to cushion sugarcane farmers who have never got an allocation. The Ksh700 million would go towards paying arrears of cane money to farmers. Also, we take note of the money for coolers for dairy farmers. Members as we continue, you need to know that the Supplementary Appropriation (No. 2) (National Assembly Bill No. 39 of 2024) Bill details item by item and sector by sector with the amounts allocated for expenditure purposes. It is so that when we go out we have the information to give to the people. Hon. Speaker, I second."
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