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    "content": "Another concern that I have noted looking at the table is that the National Treasury has been allocated a development budget of nearly Kshs50 billion most of which is going to public finance management. It would be prudent, as we go into the detailed budgeting period, to have a breakdown of this abnormal Development Vote for a Ministry whose major function is policy formulation, coordination of public fiscal functions and services in general. With those functions, clearly we would need total dissection and analysis if we are not to raise the red flag on this very abnormally huge allocation. If you look at the table, the allocation for agriculture is about Kshs45 billion which is, in fact, only about 3 per cent of all the appropriations. This is, in my view, dismal if you consider that every year in this country you we have to hold out begging bowls asking for food for our people. How then are we going to address the perennial issue of food insufficiency in our country if we cannot adequately allocate for agriculture."
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