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    "id": 1613455,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John Mutunga Kanyuithia",
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    "content": "must do a lot of campaigns for landowners to grow coffee and intensification of coffee production and productivity. This cannot be done without proper budgeting and recognition of some of those activities in the budget process. In terms of harmonisation, we are investing in industrial packs and aggregating centres as a country. Having those industrial packs is a very good initiative. Most Kenyan farmers are small holders. They are the producers of the raw materials for industries and the little that we sell outside the country. Big producers who are small in scale will need to aggregate. For us to have aggregation centres that are supportive of the economy, we must organise the producers in a manner that they will respond to the demands of the day. In that respect, it calls for investment in the organisation process, setting up co-operatives across the country and enabling those people to work, harvest, store and sell together. Those are some of the omissions in the Budget Estimates that need to be looked into. The other notable inclusion in this respect is the focus on institutional support. Most of the Government institutions have been supported in the Budget Estimates. I have in mind the military, police, Judiciary and Parliament. I want to call upon those institutions to do their work and deliver their promises to Kenyans. This will guarantee them further support and give Kenyans the due recognition of the role that they play. We have seen in the budgeting process the effort to sustain the budget deficit and to live within our means. The concern is that the fiscal space is limited. Under such limitation, we need to operate within the confines of the fiscal space. So, budgeting has been done in a way that it will not open up room for more demand of resources. That is a deliberate effort by the Government and this House to ensure that we do not open up that lid. It is important for us to note as a country, there are certain projects that impact the livelihood of Kenyans fast. When you debate for instance the transfer of NG-CDF to the counties, those who live there are our brothers and sisters. We went to the same schools with them. We live in the same localities and all support devolution. However, if something is working, why change it? This is the only fund in this country which has a management fee of 5 per cent. I would like to explain why 5 per cent is so significant. If you are doing research and the data variation is not beyond 5 per cent, you normally conclude that there is no significant difference in the responses. In this particular respect, it means, therefore, that most of the money utilised under NG-CDF goes to development and that is why there is so much impact."
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