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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for the opportunity to say a few words about this year's Financial Statement. I wish to commend the Minister for Finance for his second Budget. Building on last year's Finance Bill that came in this House and later became an Act, I do notice that there are repetitions of the pitfalls that befell the Minister last year. I have noticed the issue about the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) where the Minister is kind of having a confrontation with the House as a result of his views. He brought the issue of the chairman and the House rejected the idea of creating a CBK chairman. This year, he has brought it again. I do not know whether he thinks that we have amnesia and we will just ignore it and allow him to get away with it. The only way out of some of these hiccups is that the Minister should work with the Departmental Committee for Finance, Planning and Trade. Let him talk with them and negotiate, so that when he comes, we do not see what we saw last year. We had the Finance Bill actually mutilated and a lot of money that he intended to raise was rejected. The proposals were actually rejected by the House. This is not a tradition of Treasury and this Parliament. I just wanted to bring out that observation. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue that could be of interest to this Government is the issue of a company collecting money from villagers selling their eggs, vegetables and chicken, and also from the high and mighty; Safaricom. They rake in Kshs17 billion and we cheer the company as if they have done wonders. That company is exploiting Kenyans."
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