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    "id": 444052,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angwenyi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I lost my voice when I went to campaign for Opore. We have given the National Intelligence Service Kshs.17 billion. That is almost as much money as what they have given Parliament. We are being warned everywhere and there is no intelligence being applied effectively. I do not know how they will account for this Kshs.17 billion. The Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government has been given Kshs.80 billion. I hope they will provide proper housing for our policemen. They should also provide proper equipment and facilities for our policemen. I was in my constituency last weekend and an incident occurred. We called the police and they could not come because they did not have a vehicle and yet we are devoting Kshs.80 billion to this Ministry. So, the Committee on Security must ensure that this money is applied appropriately and that we have proper housing for our policemen and proper equipment in all our stations. There is something which has come to me like a shock today. In the Appropriation Bill, we voted a total of Kshs.26 billion but we have been given an amendment this afternoon saying they are reducing that amount to Kshs.22 billion. They are attacking the budget for Parliament, the Parliament that we were told yesterday makes budgetary allocations. I wonder what hon. Nyamwea and hon. Ng’ongo will tell us. Hon. Ng’ongo, were you involved in reducing this amount from Kshs.26 billion to Kshs.22 billion? You know we cannot have trips anymore; you cannot meet outside Nairobi any more. You decided to reduce this amount by Kshs.4 billion when in fact you did not touch the Kshs.906 billion for the Executive and you have not touched a single shilling on the amount for Judiciary, the Kshs.17.4 billion. They have only attacked the budget for Parliament, yet we said that we are the ones who make the Budget. They have taken us back to where we were in 2001. The Budget is what made us establish the Parliamentary Service Commission. We said Parliamentary Service Commission cannot be touched by the Executive and now we are giving in. I am surprised that the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee can bring such an amendment which is only attacking Parliament. I have seen we have allocated very little amount for tourism. We said tourism is a major contributor to national income, yet we have only given them Kshs.4 billion. The Budget and Appropriations Committee, I do not know what you were telling us yesterday. How can you allocate only Kshs.4 billion to a sector which promotes jobs, high income and earning of foreign exchange?"
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