Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 368212,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/368212/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 277,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ganya",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 18,
        "legal_name": "Francis Chachu Ganya",
        "slug": "francis-ganya"
    },
    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I want to support the Appropriations Bill No.11 of 2013. As I do so, I really want to commend our Budget and Appropriations Committee which has worked under very stringent and very difficult times to produce a very positive and well focused budget. I really want to comment on their guiding principle whereby as a nation we should not subsidize consumption, but we can subsidize production so that this country can develop; using the guiding and development principles from the nations which have done very well, including the Asian Tigers. We need to invest more in development than we have ever done before as a nation. In the past, almost 80 per cent of our funds have been going to Recurrent Expenditure and overheads. This time round we are putting almost 43 per cent of our money in developing this nation. I am also very glad that they have listened to the plight of our teachers. It may not be enough and it will never be enough, but putting over almost Kshs513 billion towards the price of our teachers be it in promotion or hiring about 10,000 teachers is something that we should commend this Committee for. It is very inspiring to see that we have raised the funds for county governments from the minimum required by the Constitution to at least Kshs210 billion. Initially it was Kshs198 billion that was suggested. As a House we managed to increase it to Kshs210 billion. We have gone beyond the minimum constitutional requirement. I am sure that in progressive years we will do even better as our economy improves. As a nation, and more so as a Parliament, it is critical to ensure that these funds we are committing for development are put to good use. Having invested so much money in our counties and our national Government we should play our oversight role and ensure that we reduce corruption to the bare minimum if not zero. I demand zero. While I appreciate this Budget I am still not convinced that our Standard One pupils really need laptops. If we redirected this money to construct labs for all our primary schools or even secondary schools then it will be of very good use. The Standard One kids in North Horr Constituency can hardly speak Kiswahili. I wonder how they will be able to use the software in those laptops. I know it was a good pledge to our children, but I think it will be of more use and value to this nation if we use that money to construct computer labs in all our primary schools. The Jubilee Government, I am sure,"
}