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    "id": 216983,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Weya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sammy Arthur Weya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Budget Speech. It is about time the Government realised where it gets most of its resources from. It is very clear that in the tourist industry, the Government is collecting way over Kshs23 billion to Kshs30 billion. However, when it comes to the roads that lead to these game reserves and national parks, you will find that the Government only allocates a small sum of money to the tune of Kshs1 billion. That money is meant to service the roads that go into our national parks from which we get huge revenue. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, last year, we saw on television tourists telling us to fix our roads because they were not able to access the game reserves. This is because the roads had been degraded so much. Tourists going there were now being advised by the Government to fly to their destinations instead of using the road. So, the Government needs to really look at where our bread is being buttered properly. Let me turn to the issue of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector. This Government is getting huge sums of money as revenue from multinational companies, like Safaricom, Celtel, Access Kenya and all those internet companies. The amount of revenue the Government is getting from this sector clearly shows that more money needs to be pumped into this sector. Why I say this is because, I think, this financial year, the Government has allocated Kshs3.7 billion as opposed to the taxes they have collected to the tune of over Kshs10 billion to Kshs15 billion in revenue from this sector. They need to go back and identify where they can put in more infrastructure in ICT. For example. I know they are trying to develop the fibre-optic cable, but they should make sure that many regions in this country have access to the internet. Why I also say this is because for us, as a country, to compete with the multinationals in developed countries, you find that our children have no access to internet in the rural areas whereas children in the developed countries have access to the internet as far as from the time they are in nursery schools all the way in all their educational system. So, how do you expect us to compete with the developed countries when we do not have those systems in place? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, a country like India has recently found itself growing"
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