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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of infrastructure where the Minister has pegged considerable resources, it has come to our attention, of course, that a lot of that funding is for the road network between Garissa and Mandera, which has been on the cards for the last 12 or 13 years. Every other Budget, the Ministers come before us and give no funding at all to that particular highway that would have opened up the whole of northern Kenya. So, I would like to suggest to the Minister that, even as we congratulate him – and we think he has done a good job – he should be able to seek for more funding. We are waiting to see how much he can think outside the box. If this Budget was submitted before this House, for example, five years ago, by now, this country could have changed in a drastic way. I do not understand what the former Ministers for Finance were doing. They used to read Budgets in this House that were populist. Others even attempted to tax hon. Members as if the money obtained from taxing hon. Members could be used to build the economy of this country in a fundamental way. There is a possibility now for any future Head of Government to think very carefully about whom to appoint as a Minister. Whoever is appointed as the Minister for Finance, now that we know the fundamental role such a Minister plays--- I even propose the burning of the effigies of the former Ministers for Finance, at least, for the last four years because they did a great disservice to this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if this Budget proposal, as bold as it is, was brought before us three years ago and we continued to build on the momentum then, you can imagine how much progress this country would have made. You can also imagine how much investment we would have attracted. A lot of the noise you hear about who should become the President is all about allocation of resources. If we got resources in our constituencies and districts, we would not bother about who becomes the President of this country. Instead, we would bother about how to manage those resources. However, because the presidency goes with resources, people feel that it is their time to eat. We want time for all Kenyans to eat. It should not be time for one person, a community or a region to eat. With those few remarks, I thank and congratulate the Minister for Finance."
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