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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I also want to state from the outset that the Minister for Finance, who is also a Deputy Prime Minister, has done this country a great service. He has looked at the times and decided, wisely, that it is time to have the fundamentals now for a better tomorrow. Under such economic times, the normal words being branded around would be âeconomic meltdown and financial issuesâ, and the Minister for Finance would react. The knee-jerk reaction would be to increase taxes, which would not have helped us much. But this time, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, having looked at the situation, has seen it fit that he should engage more in consumption, encourage more investments and have more disposable income, so that Kenyans can be able to enjoy some quality life without necessarily suffering. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, having said that, of course, the greatest room is room for improvement. In his eloquence, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance gave Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) Kshs12,329,000,000. The law requires that CDF allocation is based on a minimum of 2.5 per cent of the Budget. Knowing that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance has been grappling with issues of so many errors to the extent that others refer to him as the âera of errorsâ, again, the mathematics could not add up."
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