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    "id": 554854,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/554854/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogalo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Oner Ogalo",
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    "content": "The Treasury are the people in charge of implementation of the Budget. They know they can propose a Supplementary Budget any time while the Judiciary cannot. So, why hurt the Judiciary when we can get the money very easily from the National Treasury? I honestly oppose that. If we want Kenyans to access justice, we must enable the courts to operate to offer that justice. We cannot have justice when the courts are underfunded. It cannot work that way. This money should come from traditional sources of Government allocations like the National Treasury or the State Department for Planning and Vision 2030. There is a lot of money there. Those monies cannot be safeguarded while the one for the Judiciary is easily picked. Having spoken on that, I want to briefly touch on the money for the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). I sit in the Committee and I recommended that the money for KWS be reduced by Kshs1.5 billion. Last year, we allocated KWS Kshs4.1 billion combined. The Kshs1.8 billion was for security of wildlife and Kshs2.35 billion for branding of national parks. When they appeared before Parliament, they said they did not have any money for branding and they did not do any branding. They forgot that they had set the targets and had requested money for those targets. Either the Executive should bring targets and proposal for funding those targets when they believe in them or they avoid bringing those targets altogether. So, this year they decided to lump together security and this branding, but now at Kshs6.9 billion. We said that we will not give them Kshs6.9 billion. We, therefore, reduced the allocation by Kshs1.5 billion to make them know that when they set targets, they must work towards those targets. I have an issue I want to raise about the KCC. It has been allocated Kshs400 million. If KCC is producing milk and selling it, what is the business of the national Government giving it money? It is an enterprise which has already been restructured and it is able to operate. They buy milk from farmers, process it and sell it. Why would you allocate them Kshs400 million? You allocate them money to do what? These are some of the challenges we are faced with."
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