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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Shaban",
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "talking about the two-thirds majority the amount of money for the Commission should have been an enhanced package for them to go out there and talk to Kenyans. On transport and infrastructure where we have close to Kshs300 billion in that sector, this money deserves to be there and I wish it would be a bit more simply because a country which does not develop its infrastructure and transport system cannot do well economically. We need to look at this and I want to congratulate His Excellency the President and his team for making sure that they are putting in place the annuity programme where more roads and more kilometres are going to be covered in this country. Hon. Speaker, without saying much on the issue of security because all my colleagues have touched on it, I want to say that we would want to see this Kshs92 billion allocated for defence; Kshs102 billion allocated for Interior and Co-ordination of National Government, and Kshs102 billion allocated for National Intelligence Service (NIS), being utilized properly so that we can mitigate and work on the issues affecting us and more so, get intelligence right on time. We do not want to have a Garissa-like issue happening again. On leasing of health equipment, I want to agree with everybody and also His Excellency the President for this very noble exercise of ensuring that at least two hospitals in each county are going to be well equipped. Patients undergoing dialysis cannot wait the way they have been waiting. It is high time we had this dialysis done in Voi and everywhere else, in at least one hospital in each county where we are going to have proper treatment carried out as soon as possible and people do not have to queue. On the money we gave the Senate for monitoring and evaluation, I am very glad to hear that it has been reallocated because they have already started fighting over it. They do not seem to agree and to me, the issue should be pushed to the next financial year or during the Supplementary Budget because they are already quarrelling and are at each other’s throats. The other issue I would want to talk about is the money that we want to reallocate from the Judiciary. I feel that for most of us who come from rural and remote areas where we require development of our courts where justice can be realized fast, we should not have supported the move. The best way should have been to have in place some austerity measures and some amount of money in each Ministry is reduced. I have seen a lot of wastage by several Ministers and their Principal Secretaries where people move around in choppers, each person with their own chopper. That is just wastage. I believe if austerity measures had been put in place, we would have reduced Kshs45 million from each Ministry. So, for the 18 Ministries, we would have realized Kshs800 million which would have gone towards covering the gap that has been created by the Senate. Then we would not be having all these wars with the Judiciary. These austerity measures are not being introduced for the first time. It was done when His Excellency the President was the Minister for Finance. He carried it out so successful. I was a Minister and I know what they did. They did some cost-cutting measures where the Recurrent Expenditure was concerned and they were able to meet the deficit they were looking for. It is doable. I beg my colleagues to look at it from that angle and that way we would be able to give money to the Judiciary so that they can develop the courts that they wanted to develop and implement projects all over the place and for people not to be denied justice in time. I 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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