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    "id": 1533612,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this debate. First and foremost, I congratulate the Liaison Committee for taking up the responsibility of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, which has not been reconstituted, and coming up with whatever they have done. Secondly, I have not seen a paragraph on incomplete projects in this Report. There are very many incomplete projects across the country. Therefore, we need to have, at least, a committee to be in charge of them, so that they can have proper funding. We also have a problem of oversight. We have ongoing projects. Poor oversight is done by the Controller of Budget. There are people who have not done very well and have misused resources. However, at the end of the day, we do not see them being prosecuted or, at least, made to account for them. Therefore, this should come out very clearly. Thirdly, I will talk about agriculture, which is very important. The level of funding to agriculture is not very good. The sector has been given only 3 per cent as compared with the Executive. This is something that we, as a House, need to review because this is a country where agriculture is practised in arid and semi-arid areas as well as in areas which produce food for both export and local consumption. We should review the 3 per cent allocation because it is not enough. This is because we produce food for our country and for export. Agriculture also provides employment for our people. It should be a priority sector in this allocation so that we have enough resources to produce enough food for export and local consumption. I come 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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