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    "content": "Listening to the tone, the manner, mandate and style of the working of this Committee as being conveyed by the Member, especially with respect to this idea of Kshs3 billion in this Budget, let me educate the Member for the great people of Gem that the money that he is talking about, whether it is Kshs1 billion, Kshs10 billion or Kshs10 billion, that we are supposed to have appropriated to ourselves, will not be in this Report. This is just a Report. Wait for the Appropriations Bill. It is when it comes to the Appropriations Bill - and let me help you - that you can then have the opportunity to do your surgery. Go to the numbers and then track the members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee in what they have got using the guise of public hearings. Then table the matter here. We must act in good faith. It is absolutely fundamental. I was speaking somewhere and I quoted a preacher who made a point that I found very powerful; that one of the basic problems of the Kenyan society today--- He can laugh! I think it is a very serious matter. The preacher said that the basic problems of the Kenyan society are mistrust and the culture of suspicion. The culture of mistrust, suspicion and ill-will will take us nowhere. Hon. Speaker, I want to assure you, this honourable House and the country that my Committee will prosecute its mandate with respect to the work that we have been given by being guided by the values that are in the Constitution."
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