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    "id": 451817,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyamweya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 391,
        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving a chance to contribute to this Bill. I have a serious concern on it. Under the Recurrent Expenditure, the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government has been allocated a whooping Kshs.5 billion. Are they going to spend this money during the months of March, April, May and June? It is not in arrears. This turns the entire Budget-making process upside down. I do not understand. The Presidency has been allocated Kshs1.5 billion extra. I do not have a quarrel with the allocation to the Ministry of Defence because our soldiers are out there, defending this country. The current expenditure of the Ministry of Environment, Water and Natural Resource has increased by Kshs.827 million but the allocations for irrigation, small dams and water pans have been removed. So, the people who prepared this Supplementary Budget are taking this country in an opposite direction from where were going before. I would like hon. Members to look at the money that has been allocated for infrastructure. Infrastructural development has been assigned a paltry Kshs.131 million against a request of Kshs9 billion. Unless the Government makes roads, as Members of Parliament, we will all have failed. It will not be the Government that will have failed. So, I find it unacceptable that this House, which has the authority to pass this Supplementary Budget, can accept this kind of budget. This Budget has a meaning. It will affect us once we pass it. Hon. Speaker, we have removed the entire allocation for irrigation but we have allocated money for purchase of maize. It is true that the country is experiencing drought. We must raise some money to feed our people, but we are ignoring the best alternative, which is irrigation, so that next year, we do not provide funds for importation of maize. It defeats logic that we can provide money for purchasing maize and fail to provide money for irrigation. The allocation for irrigation has been removed from the Supplementary Budget. So, as Members of Parliament, how can we sit here and watch all 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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