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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "content": "I rise to support this Budget proposal and urge the hon. Member who is saying that it is very unfair to chill and wait for his turn. He may get a chance after the dialogue, but right now I am the one. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me first of all thank the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and his team for a job well done. It is tedious and usually when we go for recess people say that hon. Members of Parliament are doing nothing. I want to re-assure Kenyans that under the new order the Budgeting process falls squarely in the ambit of the National Assembly. Therefore, we have been working and we must pat ourselves on the back. Having said that, there are issues that we want to plead with the Executive to help us reorganize - security issues, now that Parliament is allocating colossal sums of money. It may not be enough but the Executive must agree to take politics away from the security arms of our Government. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I happen to sit in the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations. I have seen the tussle between the Ministry of Defence and the Department of National Intelligence Service (NIS) and I do not think it is healthy. We want our security forces to work together because we have security challenges. Because of insecurity, we are going to lose so much revenue. It is not known up to date how many hotels have closed down in the Coast because of insecurity. We must take the issue of security seriously. This House has a duty to take the issue of insecurity seriously. I want to thank the Committee for saying that we need money for intelligence. We want to plead with NIS to do its work so that we are not surprised by petty criminals. If you give the NIS Kshs17 billion, we need not see some useless persons hauling a hand grenade at a matatu carrying Kenyans. They must do their job and they must stop using this money politically. We want the money to do the work that this House intends it to do. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we want security forces to stop lamenting about lack of money. I want to thank the Committee for giving colossal amount of money to Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) because they are working for us in Somalia. When you sit in committees, complaints about money not being enough is a normal song. We need money to build our roads, construct hospitals and do many other things. The Executive must do something about corruption. The President must lead this country to eradicate rampant runaway corruption. I want to say that I would not want to go the hon. Millie Odhiambo-Mabona’s way of wanting to legalize corruption. Corruption is a cancer and the Government must do something about it. The President must lead from the front. We cannot wake up one day and pay a street man or boy Kshs1.4 billion in the name of paying a shadow deal like Anglo-Leasing. We shall not accept that! That is our money; Kenyan people’s money! We cannot accept that kind of thing. The Treasury Secretary must take responsibility for what he has done. I have said The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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