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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "country for our children and for their children when they do not know what the future brings; when the future is bleak. I am happy this Committee under the able leadership of our Chair brought out the elements of the public wage bill, security and devolved government. We are talking of Vision 2030. We cannot see that vision. As for me, I have some more years but for my colleague, the Leader of Minority Party, with your age that vision will be a mirage with the wage bill. That is on a light touch! I do not need you to stand on a point of order; that was on a light touch. We must deal with expensive administrative structures. Why should we have 860 nominated MCAs? Those are crazy administrative structures. We must audit our governance structures. We must look at the Senate. Why do we have 26 nominated Senators? Can we do with 1,000 or even less MCAs in 47 counties? Why must we have 1,450? The County of Garissa can have only five MCAs. We can even say we want 47 counties and three MCAs. We need to look at the expensive administrative and governance structures in our country. We must bite the bullet! Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in the preparation of this report, the National Treasury, I am sure, took into account the requirements of Section 25(4) of the Public Finance Management Act. What does it say? I am sure this section envisages the element of outputs and targets but in the report it says they must provide a detailed programme based budget. They cannot run away from it and we want the Chair to make sure that, that is provided in future. Let me look at the social services in this report and what the National Treasury wants to do after their provision of basic social services is looked at. We are talking of free maternity and if there is somebody who is happy with the free maternity, it is me, the guy of pastoralist community, because this tyranny of numbers is not only in this house, it will be in the elections. We are telling the pastoralists they must use that free service properly for a day will come when we will compete with our brothers from the Western, Rift Valley and Central regions. Of course, we are now at par with our neighbours in the Eastern region, even in terms of the number of Members of Parliament in this House. So, basic social services include provision of free maternity services to mothers and the money that we give to our elderly people. Even our colleagues on the Opposition must see, in the eyes of God, when they go to church on Sundays and to mosques on Fridays; the good things that Uhuru Kenyatta’s government has done. In every constituency in Kenya, including the constituency of hon. Junet, you will find old people getting money, for the first time in the history of this country. When you go to church, and you are in front of God, please, give what is due to Uhuru Kenyatta’s Government."
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