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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, I wanted to cheer up the House. With regard to security I want to support the Member for Kiminini. He is right. This Committee has not touched what the National Treasury allocated to defence and security. The National Treasury has allocated enough money for housing, that is, 30,000 units across the country. This has never happened. The policemen in Kitale, Garissa, Mandera, and Kajiado, this financial year, they will have houses, vehicles and better intelligence gathering. We know that this money will be used to the last penny. The war on terrorism needs resources. Our police officers need equipment. We want our police officers to move. We want more personnel. Money has been allocated and the Budget and Appropriations Committee did not touch that. Infrastructure receives the highest allocation. For the first time after the Indians in the 1800s built the Mombasa-Kampala Railway, I want to state that the Jubilee Government has now allocated money for the building of a standard gauge railway. This railway will accommodate 90 per cent of the cargo from the Port of Mombasa. Our roads will not be used any more by big trucks. Importers in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, DRC and South Sudan will get their cargo within seven days. That will improve the efficiency of Mombasa. The Ministry in charge of infrastructure got the second highest allocation. My good friend, hon. Mbadi, is not here. I want to urge him that we will follow the law. After these Estimates are adopted within 21 days they will be consolidated and gazetted. This is a Government that believes in the rule of law and that is why the President assented to the Bill. In the last Parliament, many Bills were brought back unsigned to Parliament. This is because we had a coalition Government that was pulling different directions. Now we have one Government and one Head of State who knows where the law is. That is why he assented to the Division of Revenue Bill after listening to our honorable Speaker. So, let us not politicize issues. The County Allocation Bill will start from the Senate. That is their Bill. I want to repeat; our good brothers in the Senate should tell the country where the Division of Revenue Bill falls. Is it a money Bill? Is it is a Special Bill? Does it belong to them? We want to respect our colleagues, but we also want to work within the confines of the Constitution. With regard to the areas of reduction, I would like to congratulate this Committee. This is a very good Committee. We know that Kshs1.5 billion was allocated to undertake human resource reforms. That is where I tend to disagree with the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I totally disagree with them. This is because there will be a lot of rationalization between the National Government and county governments. We expected some amount of money to be spent, but not Kshs1.5 billion. However, the"
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