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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wanted to conclude by talking about the way we need to approach the various institutions that the new Constitution has put in place. You will realize that in this country, we are crying about carrying out a proper electoral system which has integrity. If we cannot allocate more funds to the Electoral Commission--- If we are going to cap it at some figure and tell them: “You have to operate with this---“, if we cannot sacrifice as a country to give the Electoral Commission more money, we will have a bungled election in this country and you know the consequences. This afternoon, there were issues here of how much we are spending on settling the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). If you are going to say that Kshs5 billion is too much to add to the Electoral Commission, then they bungle the elections, how much will you spend in resettling IDPs, loss of revenue to the economy and people who will have lost their lives? You cannot even compensate them? This country lost 1,133 people, if my memory is right. You cannot even quantify the value of those people. When the Electoral Commission wants to computerize the registration of voters, you deny them funds; you deny the Judiciary funds and yet, some of us did not want to go to court because the Judiciary was not properly reformed. Let us sacrifice as a country and give the Electoral Commission money; let us give the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) money and give Parliament money. There is a price to democracy. You can even suspend some of the programmes because we are in a transition. A transition period can never be normal. You have to sacrifice. You cannot project a growth rate of 6.8 per cent in 2012/2013. It is not realistic. First of all, there are a lot of risks that come with elections and yet, you go ahead and make such optimistic projections. Even if there will be no violence, there are people and businessmen who are scared. They know the history of elections in Kenya. Some of them may not want to bring in investments. So, that year, you must expect a slow rate of growth. You have to accept as a country to divert some funds to those very critical institutions."
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