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    "id": 222048,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muturi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Justin Bedan Njoka Muturi",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to take a little time in engaging in the May 15, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1321 usual ritual that we have to engage in. But I just wish to point out a few issues. We have already discussed the policy issues and, therefore, this is a matter of formality. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I feel it is important that when we come to Supplementary Estimates, we should deal with the areas that spur growth in the country. It is those areas which should be asking for additional funds towards the tail-end of a financial year. Those areas, in my view, should include the area of roads. We need to address our infrastructure. Therefore, if we are talking of additional funds in those Ministries, it is something that is understandable. The other area is that of health. Through the CDF, we have put up numerous health facilities. It is those type of Ministries that we expect, in the future, to be coming here to ask us to approve additional expenditure towards the tail-end of a financial year. We do not want to be told that there are salary increases and things like those. Those are populist pronouncements for which we should not be, on a yearly basis, asked to approve additional expenditure. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would want the Minister to confirm, because it was said, that, actually, the extra funds that he is asking for towards the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) are to enable the ECK to undertake fresh registration of voters in the intervening period between now and the time of the general election. I think it is very important that, that message comes out from the Minister for Finance. He has told us that part of the additional money he is applying for is to enable the ECK to do voter registration. It is important that we are told that in no uncertain terms. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have not heard whether part of the additional expenditure---"
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