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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Manyatta, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gitonga Mukunji",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Supplementary Appropriation Bill No. 2 of 2024. I take this opportunity to commend the Chairperson and the Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee for spending the allotted time to the last minute trying to come up with this Bill. Every Member, as I have heard, is in support of what has come out after the experience of the last Finance Bill. What has appeased me is the fact that we have learnt how to look at internal measures to enable us cut on our costs and spending. This House, ministries and parastatals have also taken cue and have reduced on their usage. I take interest in the merging of parastatals which have been duplicating duties and using taxpayers' money unnecessarily. I call upon this House to look at more ways of reducing unnecessary Government’s spending. As we tell Kenyans to tighten their belts, let us also tighten the belt of the Government. Many people including Government advisors have come out and they agreed that there is a lot of wastage in Government. It is upon this House, therefore, to look at where the wastage is, reduce the amount of money that is used in Government and put money where we can efficiently get full value of it. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we need to put our resources where we can conjure growth of our economy and ensure we have a healthy economy. That calls for the review of our big system of governance so that we can have a lean governance structure. While I welcome the allocations to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock on issues such as empowerment of farmers through subsidised fertiliser, the Ksh3.1 billion to tea, coffee and sugar farmers matter. I also call upon this House to look at ways which we can have a bigger allocation to the agriculture sector. We have a population of young jobless people who have been a burden. Going by the statistics, we have over 2.3 million graduates without jobs. That calls for measures that will ensure that we get jobs for our young people. We need to put more money where we can get jobs going 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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