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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. A budget is either a tool of equalising or marginalising a country. That is a key principle when it comes to national budgets. You can use a budget to marginalise certain areas and boost others. However, you can also equalise a country and the budget we are currently debating is such a tool. I have seen in this budget that resources have been put in virtually every part of the country. Probably, it is the only time since Independence that we have had such a budget, thanks to the broad-based Government that we have. This is an important principle, and I want to ask other chairmen of budget committees and people who have been given the task of budgeting to ensure that we follow this spirit. The spirit of ensuring that every budget that comes in tries to equalise the nation, so that resources can go to every part of the country. Never again should we have a situation where we have marginalised areas and those that have made huge progress. Areas that have been left ten years behind others, or other areas which are ten years ahead. This is one of the things that I want to commend the Committee on. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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