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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nakara",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Lodepe Nakara",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to support this Motion. First of all, we want to thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee for reconsidering the issues that were raised by the House yesterday. If we go by the same spirit that this Committee has shown, we will have unity in this House and we will serve together as hon. Members of this House. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there was a bit of tension in this House yesterday but the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee took an initiative of inviting all hon. Members who had some amendments or proposals to appear before him. Today we have seen the benefits and the fruits of negotiating and doing things in the right way. I want to talk about the budget, given to the oversight institutions. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we want to appreciate the Committee for allocating money to oversight institutions in this country. There is too much corruption, too much nepotism and too much tribalism in this country. When we give money to oversight institutions, we expect these institutions to do their job. We expect them to audit institutions both at the national and county governments to make sure that the money we give them is used well so that the public can have confidence in them. It is not good to give a lot of money to oversight institutions yet they are not performing. Some of them are being corrupted to change reports, not to investigate people or to take them to jail. We want Parliament to make sure that the money we have given to the oversight institutions does something. Kenyans expect them to do something. Kenyans want to see them performing their duties without compromising. That is why we are supporting the Committee for giving good money to those institutions. The Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) has been also given money; over Kshs4 billion. If there is another place we need to do audit, it is the PSC. We need to audit the staff in this institution. There is a lot of corruption and tribalism in this institution. Now that we have given you the money, we want to make sure that Members are auditing the PSC so that we see the face of Kenya represented in this institution. We are one country and we expect every institution to represent the face of Kenya. As we audit other institutions, we must also audit our own institution to make sure that we are an example and we are demonstrating our leadership skills and our fairness. The Budget of this country has gone up. We need to reduce some commissions. In fact, for some of them, time has elapsed. They need to pack and go home. There is no way we will continue adding more time to some institutions yet productivity is low. They promised to complete their assignment within a time frame but up to now some of them still need more time. The more we give them time, the more they consume a lot of money and the more many Kenyans suffer. The money that we would have used to put in the CDF to help some lives is given to those commissions. You can be shocked at the amounts. For example, at the Judiciary they earn Kshs80,000 per sitting in allowances yet there are some Kenyans who are suffering. They have no water, no classes and no infrastructure in their places. We need to see that some of those commissions that have 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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