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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Charles Nguna (",
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        "legal_name": "Charles Ngusya Nguna",
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    "content": "need to feed pupils all over the country without discriminating them on the basis of where they come from. In the next financial year, we need to implement feeding programmes in all our primary schools. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the country does not need austerity measures. This country needs economic stimulus. When the government does not spend, there cannot be economic growth. If we continuously witness an increase in interest rates, the economy will not recover. When we experience political instability, there is nothing we are doing. While it is appropriate to institute austerity measures, I suggest that we establish a taskforce to oversee an economic stimulus programme for our country to grow economically. The Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee has stated that 47 SAGAs are going to be dissolved. Most of them were established by Acts of Parliament. I request that we analyse this matter carefully before dissolving some of the SAGAs. We need to sit down and see whether we need them. We cannot have one Committee or one person deciding whether a SAGA is good or bad for us. The law has to be followed because a majority of them were established through Acts of Parliament. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we need to relook into the issues of revenue collection in our economy. I am sure that whatever revenues we are raising through taxation are sufficient to support growth; including in the electricity sector, which has been adversely affected. Each constituency would have been given Ksh50 million for the last mile connectivity programme. The taxes we pay are sufficient to connect households to electricity in every constituency. Every institution established by Parliament through a statute should be connected to electricity, which is a basic need. I insist that we relook the Supplementary Appropriation (No.2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.39 of 2024) and reinstate the funds meant for electricity connectivity. Every Kenyan is entitled to electricity, water and food. With those remarks, I support."
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