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    "id": 461970,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "uncomfortable with some of the commissions. They are very wasteful. The wastage is not restricted to sitting allowance, it goes beyond to unnecessary flights out of this country. We need to even start auditing some of the flights. If you are travelling to the USA, you should say what you are going to do there. What have you gone to study? Some of us even go to other countries to study systems that do not exist in those countries. An example is when you travel to the United Kingdom (UK) to study a presidential system of government. Really, all of us know that there is no presidential system of government in the UK. So, we need to be very prudent in the way we manage our finances. Hon. Speaker, I am sure that this Motion will be passed this afternoon. Once this Motion it is passed, we will hold the Cabinet Secretary for Finance responsible if he does not communicate to the Accounting Officers that this is something that must be implemented, and implemented by all without exception; be it in the Judiciary or the Legislature or the Executive arms of the Government, including the county governments. There is unnecessary travel within the county governments. We have started seeing Members of the County Assemblies, Speakers of County Assemblies, Governors, Deputy Governors and Members of the Executive Committees always roaming this country. They are moving round, travelling to Nairobi and Mombasa. I wonder when these people work. Hon. Speaker, Sir, sometimes as much as it would hurt the truth of the matter is that if we proceed like this in this country we will not manage our Recurrent Expenditure. It is completely impossible. I even sympathize with those who are ruling this country. This country will crash very soon if salaries are increasing from Kshs400 billion to Kshs600 billion. That is before you bring in other expenses. This is the case and yet our tax collection is Kshs780 billion. How will we finance this country? We will leave many debts to the future generations. This is hurting this economy and we must think about it. Hon. Speaker, Sir, I support this Motion. Thank you."
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