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    "speaker_name": "Kuria East, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Maisori Kemero",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I join my colleagues in congratulating the Liaison Committee for a job very well done. This is the first time we have seen inclusivity in the BPS and in other matters that concern the budget-making process as presented in this House. What has caught my eye most is not the financial recommendations because the process is already with us. There is nothing much we can do about it now. I want to emphasise on the non-financial recommendations that have been made very ably by the Liaison Committee. Geo- mapping of resource allocation across the country is one of the best things that have happened. The 13th Parliament will go down in history as the Parliament that has taken bold steps to equalise resource allocation in this country. We know how skewed resource allocation has disenfranchised a big proportion of this country to the advantage of a small section. I congratulate and thank the Liaison Committee for the recommendation of zero-based budget, which is critical in financial management. It is quite commendable that revenues collected as A-in-A will now be under the purview of the Controller of Budget. That way, we will be dealing with the problem of lack of accountability for revenues that are collected by the county governments and the SAGAs). Since the inception of devolution, the accounting for such revenues has been left to the discretion of those in power in various categories of devolution. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I also commend the Liaison Committee for proposing that all the nearly completed projects should be fully funded, so that taxpayers can realise value for their money. There are many stalled projects across the country, which are about 80 or 90 per cent complete. Those projects are accumulating interest arrears for the contractors. We can just inject some money into them and have them completed. I want to point out a stalled road project in my Kuria East Constituency. The project starts from Tarang’anya. It comes all the way from Masara in Migori to Kehancha and stops at Tarang’anya. We have tried to get the road done and completed from Tarang’anya to Centre, Ntimaru, Isebania to Nyamtiro across Centre again to Kegonga, and across to Kugitimo and Loliondo. This has been a tall order that has prompted us to even seek the intervention of the President, who gave a directive that the project must be completed. Hon. Temporary Speaker, this brings me to my fifth point. This House must find a way of dignifying the President’s directives. The President cannot be going round the country, making pronouncements and giving directives only for those directives not to be implemented. 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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