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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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    "content": "the Government, namely the PSC and the JSC. We need to find ways of adding value to every shilling that we get. We have been criticized in the Budget and Appropriations Committee for not allocating this honourable House enough money. However, let me say this: We gave what we could and we will give what we should in due course. We cannot afford to be biased or just support the PSC just because it pays us. We must be neutral and fair and serve the institutions of the Government, the PSC included without fear or favour. What I am really saying is that we will try when this ball is played in our court and soon it will be--- We shall be ruthless. We shall cut as we need any budget and whatever budget it is because we now know that this House is not just a budget approving institution. It is a budget making institution. We want to send out the message to one and all, that in the Financial Year 2014/2015, we will make sure nobody gets a shilling more than he should get. You can take my word for it. So long as the facts are on the table, I as the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee will stand up and be counted on the promise I have given today. My committee will be with me. We must cut wastage, seepage and we must reduce, if possible eliminate corruption. Hon. Speaker, Sir, we have said that for the longest time we have subsidized consumption instead of subsidizing production, that is where we must put our money. Let us put our money in Development Expenditure and not Recurrent Expenditure. We should make sure that we do not become joy riders benefitting from the largesse of Government; taxes paid on the backs of poor people to live lives that this country cannot afford. Therefore, I thank you for giving me this opportunity and I thank hon. Jamleck Kamau for this wonderful Motion, but we must do more. I hope this is the beginning, and I support my good friend the hon. Member when he said that Treasury should take as instructions from this august House, that once we pass this Motion, we expect an overriding circular applying across the board to the Executive Arm of Government. I am sure the county governments will also do what they need to do. I thank you for indulging me and I beg to support."
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