Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1533647,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1533647/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 961,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "allocated the resources to health and roads. Health is getting a very small percentage of the resources. Although it is devolved, what remains with the national Government should also be substantively supported. The education sector has been allocated 28.3 per cent in the Budget. Most of it will go to the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) to employ or support teachers, but what happens? Are we looking at opening up the Budget so that we look at individual expenditure of this amount that we are proposing to give them as a ceiling? This is something that I propose. Let it be laid bare. Let it not just come as a consolidated figure in the final Budget Estimates. Let us open it up and itemise everything so that we can know how much it is. Finally, I will look at the allocation of resources in agriculture. This BPS appreciates itself in the macro-economic framework. Agriculture is one of the substantive sectors that the Government is relying on to project the 5.3 per cent growth in Gross Domestic Product (GDP). If they are looking at the growth of 5.3 per cent from 4.6 per cent in 2024, and then the allocation of resources in agriculture, rural and urban development is at 3.0 per cent, we are not talking the same language. We are simply trying to say we will use agriculture to achieve the GDP of 5.3 per cent, but we are not supporting it in the final Budget so that we achieve that. What will help us have 5.3 per cent growth in GDP? The BPS says we will rely on favourable weather conditions and implementation of BETA. How will it be if the weather condition changes? Let us allocate resources to agriculture so that when we speak of achieving the GDP growth of 5.3 per cent, we can also push for the resources to achieve that. However, there are good things that this BPS talks about. We must applaud the Government for what they are planning to do. For example, they are speaking to the issue of inflation which we all feel. It has come down compared to 6.3 per cent in February, 2024 to 3.5 per cent in February, 2025. That is something we feel affects everyone. It is driven by lower fuel and food prices. This is something which we really appreciate. Let the Government continue driving the economy at that low inflation rate, so that all Kenyans…."
}