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    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/444668/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute. Let me, first of all, thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the good work they have done for this country. There is a lot of work that goes on inside the Budget and Appropriations Committee and that people outside Parliament, probably, do not know. What we are doing here with this Appropriation Bill is trying to appropriate what we have passed in the Budget Estimates. This year’s budget is a well- funded budget, both in revenue and debts. Although it is a deficit budget, it is also an investment Budget, and that is what we should look at. Over Kshs500 billion is going to be spent on infrastructure and energy investments. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to stress on what hon. Ng’ongo and hon. A.B. Duale said about Kshs17 billion deficit in the Budget which, at the moment, is not funded. It is the making of the Treasury. This is because if you look at the Budget Policy Statement that went through this House, we approved Kshs35 billion for the Constituency Development Fund (CDF); it was not even Kshs33 billion; but for some reason, the Treasury found a reason to reduce CDF to about Kshs28 billion. In my opinion, the Treasury is still looking for ways to bring up the CDF allocation to Kshs33 billion. We are even very lenient to them. They should not touch things like the CDF. Everybody knows in this country the success story of CDF; it is in every part of this Country. Everybody who goes to their rural home knows that the best schools and dispensaries have been funded by the CDF. For the Treasury to interfere with the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), is somewhat disrespectful."
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