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    "id": 180352,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I rise to support the Finance Bill. I must first start by also joining my colleagues in congratulating the Minister because of his zeal. He takes his work with a lot of interest and concern. Many proposals that are made in this particular Bill show the kind of proactive approach there is in running this economy. I want to mention that if we really want to develop as a country, it is high time we took radical steps to reform this economy. First, I know we know why we have the kind of Government we have at the moment; we have a Government of 42 Ministries. However, this Government is too huge to develop the country and the economy. A Government that spends a lot of revenue on recurrent expenditure cannot dream of realising what is spelt out in Vision 2030. I want to suggest that the Government of Kenya has to just get its priorities right. Without developing the infrastructure of this economy, we are not headed in the right direction. We need to, at one point, decide that if it is the transport sector, the roads or the railways that will spur economic growth in this country, then we have to decide to put more resources in the sector, so that we can realise faster economic growth. I welcome the Rural Electrification Programme (REP); it has started, all right. But if you look at the recent figures that we were given, a constituency gets on average Kshs16 million in a year for rural electrification, yet in a constituency like mine, only one project takes Kshs13.8 million. So, in a year, you are only going to implement one project. In five, God willing, you might only implement five, and in expansive constituencies, you are not going to realise much. Therefore, 3368 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 11, 2008 there is need to re-think things and get more resources to our development portion of the Budget. I also want to talk about a recent phenomenon in form of the declining"
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