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    "id": 461935,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Muzee",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kazungu Muzee",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. From the outset, I want to thank my Chair, the Committee on Energy, Communication and Information, for moving this Motion. It is a great move and he should keep it up. Just a few months ago, we saw our dear President walk in this Chamber and he talked about the need for us to focus on economic transformation of this country. He laid out nine pillars that will help us take this country forward. That said, we need to be very careful how we spend our money. The issues that were laid out, for those who can remember, there was the issue of land, food security, water, education, economic opportunities, roads, security and the environment. All these require a lot of funds to be used in taking this country forward, but we have seen the wastage. We have seen a lot of money being used in areas which are not important. The other day, I went to one of the Ministries here and one of the officers told me: “ Mheshimiwa, you always pass this Budget, but do you really care to look at how this money is spent in these Ministries? This is because there is a lot of wastage”. If you think about the issue that this country is going through right now, it is timely that we bring, not just this Motion, but at some point a Bill, to ensure that money is not wasted in the areas where we take it. As a Member of the Committee on Energy, Communication and Information and ICT as well, we looked at the Budget just the other day and the Ministry of ICT needed Kshs11 billion. We could not get that."
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