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    "id": 1527035,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohamed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to add to what the Leader of the Majority Party has said regarding the matter raised by Hon. Omboko Milemba. Hon. Speaker, this House never used to have the powers to look into the budget of this country. The Constitution gave us those powers. For the last two years, what has happened in the Budget and Appropriation Committee border on criminality. If we are to lay bare those things, as discussed in the retreat in Naivasha and the House Business Committee we cannot shy away from talking about those atrocities. How on earth can one county have a budgetary allocation of Ksh12 billion and the whole region has Ksh60 million? What kind of a country are we living in? The Budget and Appropriations Committee went around the country to do public participation. They ended up agreeing to allocate Ksh2 billion to counties they had visited. That amount ended up ballooning to Ksh12 billion. The beneficiaries of that Ksh12 billion are not counties where public participation took place but other constituencies and counties. The Budget and Appropriations Committee has reached a level where Members of Parliament are visiting the constituency of the Chairman for benchmarking, and yet all of us are supposed to receive the same amount from the National-Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). What is making Members go and benchmark in a colleague's constituency? This is because he is receiving more funding by being the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Let us be honest with Kenyans and tell them the truth. He was sitting in an advantageous position of chairing that powerful committee of the House where he could skew allocation of resources to his constituency. Otherwise, which Member of Parliament can afford through NG-CDF to build classrooms, plaster them, put windows, a roof, tiles and cabros? Which Member can afford to do all that with a mere Ksh100 million and advertise on Citizen Television prime time news? Which Hon. Member here can do that? Raise up your hand if you can do that."
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