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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Lessonet",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Lessonet",
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    "content": "Yes, let them allow me to contribute. As the Budget Committee, we made a report which we brought to this House and was adopted by this House. The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance did not react when we brought that Report to this House. The purported trip by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance to come to the Budget Committee with a counter proposal is neither here nor there. This House approved the Report by the Budget Committee and there has been no other report by the Budget Committee other than the Report which was approved by this House. However, I am disappointed by the fact that, us, hon. Members, including myself for that matter, we did not oppose the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance when he reallocated the same savings we had created as the Budget Committee to other sectors! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to believe that time is not yet over. We still have the opportunity to push the same Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance to adopt the proposals by the Budget Committee. I am sure this country and these hon. Members are even more than willing to stop their many foreign trips which this country spends close to Kshs3 billion or Kshs4 billion per year so that we may employ 28,000 teachers. I am sure that this House can require the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance to stop the use of expenditure in terms of an item called “refurbishment”; in terms of an item called “furniture” and in terms of an item called “hospitality.” Those are issues and items that we can postpone. We can say that we do not need hospitality this year; we can say that we do not need travel allowances this year; we can say that we do not need furniture and refurbishments this year so that we can save Kshs10 billion and even employ all teachers who have been trained to date today Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to beseech my colleagues in this House that, let us go a step further. Let us force the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance to cut all unnecessary and irrelevant expenditure so that we may employ the 28,000 teachers. With those few remarks, I beg to support. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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