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    "id": 368216,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Appropriations Bill, 2013. I want to take this opportunity to thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee for their tireless effort to come up with this Bill in a short time and actually give Kenyans what they voted for. Kenyans have been looking forward for development. We voted to bring the money to the counties. The increment that we gave to the counties will go a long way to improve the livelihoods of the citizens at the county level. We have gone way beyond the constitutional threshold of 30 per cent in terms of development funding that has been given to this country. I want to thank the Committee for that. It has been said that we spend a lot of money on Recurrent Expenditure because people have not been checking our budgets properly. I agree with the Chairman of the Committee that we need to subsidize production and not consumption. That is the direction we should take this country given the Vision 2030 where we are looking forward to becoming an industrialized country. We have always mentioned issues to do with the youth. Besides the Kshs6 billion that is being given to the youth and women so that they get money to do small businesses, there is another staggering Kshs19 billion which will go towards youth affairs in various Ministries. This is where we will get things right. Concerning infrastructure, we have been passing Motions here on how to improve infrastructure and security. Good roads and other related things will go a long way to improve the security in this country. The money allocated towards improvement of our infrastructure goes to explain that the Jubilee Government is committed to the pledges that it made to the citizenry. It made so many pledges. Of course there is the issue of laptops which has been challenged one way or the other. I think as a Government that is the direction that we need to take so that we introduce our young people to computer literacy. Through the Ministry of Education and other development budgets we will"
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