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    "id": 217210,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Khaniri",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 171,
        "legal_name": "George Munyasa Khaniri",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Budget Speech. Listening to the Minister for Finance, hon. Amos Kimunya, deliver his Budget Speech two weeks ago, it was very clear to me, and I am sure it was very clear to many other Kenyans, that this is a Government in a state of panic. This is a Government that is desperate. I say this Government is in a state of panic because they have realised that the five-year mandate that they were given by Kenyans is coming to an end and the numerous promises they made to Kenyans have not been fulfilled. They have read their last Budget and in December, 2007, they will be subjected to another General Election. Therefore, they have resorted to very desperate means. I want to tell them that the die has been cast. No amount of tricks are going to change the minds of Kenyans about this Government. Come December, 2007, whether they like it or not, Kenyans are going to throw them out of power. They have been a big let down to Kenyans. The Kshs2 million allocated to the Women Enterprise Development Fund is clearly a political gimmick. We have seen it before with the Youth Enterprise Development Fund whereby in the last Budget, the Minister allocated Kshs1 billion and yet, up to now, in my constituency, we have not seen a penny of this money. It is the same trick they are now using on women to woo them to vote for them, come the next General Election. It is wrong to vote for monies for particular projects before we put down modalities on how these projects are going to be implemented. This Government is putting the cart before the horse. The Minister concerned should have come to this House with a Sessional Paper so that we deliberate on it and agree on the modalities of distributing the money and how the Fund is going to be run before the Minister for Finance can make allocation to the Fund. Therefore, I think it is just a political gimmick meant to woo women to vote for this Government, come the next General Election. It bothers me so much that after five years in power, this Government cannot get its priorities right. I wonder what the rationale is of allocating the Ministry of State for Defence 6.9 per cent of the entire Budget and then give the Ministry of Health 5.1 per cent. What is the rationale? In a country where access to medicare is still a big problem---"
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