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    "id": 1618540,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, I hope the time you have taken to speak will be given back to me, because you have taken five minutes. Yes, they can celebrate, but the people of Busia, who are of a lesser God, have nothing to celebrate. Hon. Temporary Speaker. Allow me to pick up on two issues. Hon. Mukunji has left it off that there are some basic common user facilities that every Kenyan requires. They can sort themselves out on other things. Some things are retained by the National Government, which we budget for through this process. There is close to Ksh200 billion slated for roads and related infrastructure. As usual, I have painstakingly gone through this document. I have not seen the specific itemised roads where the Ksh200 billion is going to go. This continues the opaque nature of budget-making, which I thought our experts and the Chairman of the Committee, having suffered with him in the trenches, would have been magnanimous enough. The Committee or the Parliamentary Budget Office would have annexed to this Report the projects for which funds totalling Ksh200 billion are allocated. Again, typical of our opaque nature, we are going back to where we were. Someone will sit somewhere and allocate that money, ignoring many other places. I say that with a heavy heart. Article 10 of the Constitution, which requires inclusiveness and equality, is continuously flouted in the budget-making process. So, for many of us, there may not be much to celebrate in this Budget."
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