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    "id": 517595,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/517595/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gichigi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1909,
        "legal_name": "Samuel Kamunye Gichigi",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. Instead of hon. Members just making noise on a single issue, it is important that all of us contribute towards the policy that the Government is going to use in coming up with Budget Estimates. That is what we ought to be doing right now. As you consider the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, you need to establish whether they have simply carried along what the Executive has suggested or they have also considered what we, the representatives of the people, would wish to be done. Sometimes, what the Executive wants need not to necessarily coincide with what the rank and file of the citizenry want. That is what we should be laying our emphasis on. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I have seen the various strategic interventions and policies that the Executive has proposed. I am happy with their emphasis on national security, food security and social security. The Government has been saying that it wants to broaden the social safety net but it has not proposed any serious increment, in terms of the number of beneficiaries. That is something which the National Treasury, the relevant Ministry and the Executive in general, ought to deal with. When it comes to issues of water, I know that reticulation of water is devolved but the policy is not. When it comes to issues of the big dams, it is important that the national Government improves in this area. The Government should give a little more money---"
}