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    "speaker_name": "April 29, 2009 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 153 Mr. Mungatana",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to make my contribution to this Motion. I listened very carefully to some parts of the speech made by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance as he moved this Motion. He is seeking the permission of Parliament to be given Kshs16 billion and the rest of the other variations that he wants for the Supplementary Estimates. One of the things that is coming out clearly is that the Supplementary Estimates had to be adjusted because there is a shortfall in the collection of revenue within the economy of this country. I wholly support his Motion today, but there are many things that he must start thinking about very seriously. Yes, we have had political troubles in this country and they could have contributed to this. We have had all these other variations, but another reason why we are having a shortfall of revenue collection in this country is that the recession that has been a global phenomenon is actually slowly creeping into our economy. People in the First World have lost jobs, homes and their sources of income. People who would have been millionaires have become paupers all of a sudden, from the stock market. People who were employed in industries for decades have found themselves unemployed. Families that had riches stretching over generations have become paupers all of a sudden. This issue of recession is coming into this country. I am worried that the Minister has not yet found it necessary to state out clear steps that he intends to take to cushion the economy against the recession. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when we say that there is a shortfall of the collection of revenue and, therefore, we have to adjust the Budget, we are going to go this way until when? I am standing here as a Kenyan to ask the Minister to sit down with his bureaucrats and think of what we will do to save those jobs and the shortfall of revenue collection. This money must come from businesses and people employed within this economy in Kenya. It must come from those who would have invested in this economy to generate more jobs in this economy."
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