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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr) Shaban",
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "Thank you hon. Speaker Sir. From the outset, I would want to start by congratulating the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee for putting together this Report concerning the Supplementary Budget. I know there is a lot of work which has gone into it, but I am a bit disappointed that Treasury has decided to do things in a reverse way. As far as I am concerned, this should have come before the Budget for the next financial year would have been presented to us. I would like to take this opportunity to ask Treasury to put its act together so that they can start doing things the right way. I know with the new Constitutionalism, they can present several Supplementary Budgets, but the timing is what is worrying me, considering it is coming just a week before the end of the Financial Year. Having said that, I know I have heard some of my colleagues speak with a lot of pain when it comes to Anglo Leasing. I have also heard His Excellency the President talk about Anglo Leasing with a lot of pain. A court order and a judgment done abroad has forced our Government to get into that situation. For the Kenya Government, it was a matter of choosing between two evils; the worst evil and the better evil. Trust me, it is an evil thing to have paid this money, but our President and his Government had no choice but to get into that arrangement which to them was the most difficult decision to make. I believe this money which has been put in this Supplementary Budget was to regularize that, because the Government would have continued incurring interest which was running to over Kshs.264,000 per day. That was a lot of money that we could not afford to lose. I just want to point out that the standard gauge railway which attracted a lot of controversy is basically because people are not used to change, people are used to business as usual. In Kenya, we like holding on to what we have always done in the past and we do not want to see new things coming into place, more so projects of that magnitude. It is very scary because it is a new thing. For most of us who are Members of Parliament and people who have worked in the public sector, we have travelled all over the world and we know we have been left behind by so many years. This is the right time for the standard gauge railway to be implemented, not only up to Nairobi. I have heard my colleagues asking for the Nairobi-Malaba line. I would also like to see that put in place and also one that will run to Tanzania though my Taveta Constituency. I know after 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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