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    "id": 1532568,
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    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga Kanyuithia",
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    "content": "some institutions before the actual budgeting. Therefore, the Committee had to look at some of these issues and articulate them to the Liaison Committee so that it could adopt them as they were. Allow me to look briefly at the recurrent versus development expenditure. Through this process, we note that we regularise money for development into recurrent expenditure. There has been some resistance and policy direction that we should not transfer money from development to recurrent expenses. However, that has been the general practice in our country. The problem is that recurrent expenditures end up dealing with personnel emoluments and other comfort-related issues and, thus, end up being wasted. As a country, we need to focus on that tendency. How do we reduce the resources that go into recurrent and focus more on development? Most of the time, our borrowing goes into development. The borrowing space is limited in the sense that we should not exceed five per cent of the GDP. That being the case, the capping is very clear. Therefore, as a country, we may suffer because we are not moving in the right direction. So, we need to intensify our revenue collection. We should come up with more innovative ways of raising money. We need to focus more on this country's productive sectors to generate the revenue that we need to support our many activities. Hon. Temporary Speaker, the final issue I would like to mention is on the entire budgetary spread across the country. I have heard some Members of this House say that there is discrimination. From the detailed outlay of activities across the country, Kenya is looked at as a unit. There may be specific pockets where we have not done certain things, but every area in the country has been considered. I believe that the orientation of the country at the moment, in view of the partnership that is happening…"
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