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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker for the opportunity. At the outset, I want to say that I was very encouraged to hear your comment earlier that Article 218 of the Constitution needs to be seriously looked at under the review that is currently ongoing because this is a grey area that has caused all this confusion between this House and the Senate and because of time I may not be able to say much on that. I want to say that I support this particular budgetary proposal and say that indeed, it is very challenging. An amount of Kshs400 million is supposed to come in as Appropriation-in-Aid (AIA) and then the other Kshs1.1 billion is supposed to come from such things as taxation and revenue collected by the Government. Even as we look at some of the proposals given here, there is a lot of money that has been allocated to certain specific Ministries. As I was looking at it I noticed that the Ministry of Interior and Co- ordination of National Government, Defence and NIS combined will take a bigger allocation compared to what the entire 47 counties will take; slightly less than that amount. So, the element of corruption both at the national and the county level is an issue that needs to be looked at. Leakage out of our economy has been the biggest problem and I think we need to allocate more money into areas such as the monitoring and evaluation so that we are able to find out exactly what is going on in terms of the absorption levels by the Ministries and departments. I was not pleased with the reduction on the Judiciary because I think the Judiciary is a very important institution since Kenyans have started to realize the importance of an efficiently working Judiciary. The reduction we have done is something we should correct in future. On the area of education and coming from the northern region, the education sector in North Eastern Kenya has grounded to a halt. I have seen two things today, one, the Garissa University College has been denied both Development and Recurrent Expenditure. Both elements have been taken away with the exception of a very small amount left for them. We are already suffering and bleeding and our situation should not be made worse. The funds for Garissa University College need to be put back for that university to continue. It is the only university we have in the entire North Eastern region. Hon. Speaker, as I end I want to say that on the education sector, the schools which have been closed in the North Eastern region, the monies in the national Ministry should indeed be devolved to these three counties. Under Article 187, these functions for now should temporarily be given to the governors and the funds should be allocated so that we can have teachers and schools reopening because right now our schools--- 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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