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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I support this Motion. I would like to note that we did not necessarily need to decrease--- My understanding is that this should be going on until next week. Because of inequalities that we have seen in this country, there are areas that are more developed than others. There are areas that have more than they need. My constituency does not have any tarmac. We have had an allocation for a tarmacked road which has been tarmacked in patches. There are cows and goats there and even grass is growing on parts of the road. I will soon be requesting a statement from the relevant committee on what happened to that road. This is because we could not have put in so much money. There is a lot of wastage in the budget of this country. This is from what I have seen in the last Parliament. Unfortunately, this year, the Government was a little bit cheeky and it did not give us an itemized budget. So, really the budget we are passing here is, in my very humble view, just a PR exercise. It is more like the vetting process that we are doing which has become sort of a conveyor belt. Names just pass without really interrogating people seriously. It is the same thing we are doing with the budget. We are not really interrogating it very seriously. We put in a lot of money that is usually wasted in things that are not necessary, for instance, an aeroplane for the Judiciary. I do not know what the Judiciary needs a plane for and yet where I come from people do not have even the most basic of things. We do not have a court! Can they first of all get us a court before they get a plane for the Judiciary? However, I think that the greater challenge that we have is to harmonize the various roles of the new institutions that we have in this country, that is, the Senate, the National Assembly, the national Government, and the devolved units. Even now the roles are not very clear. The devolved Governments have also come up with their budgets. Most people do not know what is in their budgets. You will realize that most of their budgets have only recurrent items. Our budget, although it is much project focused or programme focused, 60 per cent to 70 per cent of it is still recurrent budget. So, we are presuming that there is some money that is going to the roads either in the devolved system or in the national budget. My worry is that we might actually pass this Motion and pass that there is absolutely nothing in the budget. As a matter of urgency we need to have a forum where we teach each of the institutions their respective roles and then harmonize."
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