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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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    "content": "reduced, whether it is in the form of corruption, litigations or pitfalls. So, Parliament is under obligation, through its committees, to ensure that wastage and excess usage of those funds is checked. Thirdly, Kenyans must get value for the taxes that they pay. The money that we are going to appropriate today has been paid by Kenyans in various forms of taxation throughout the country. Kenyans must get value for the money that they send to both levels of Government. Above all, the money that we are allocating must be distributed based on equity and fairness. If you look at the money that we have allocated for infrastructure such as roads, we want to see it distributed horizontally and not vertically. We want each and every part of our country to see the value of the money that we are appropriating today. Key sectors like security, education, the social safety net, infrastructure and energy have received huge allocations in this year’s Budget. I hope the over Kshs220 billion that we have allocated to both the security sector, the Ministries of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government and Defence will be used efficiently to secure the country both internally and externally. We expect the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) and the Ministry of Defence to secure our borders with Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan. Never again should we give Kshs104 billion shillings to the Ministry of Defence and still see the infiltration of extremist groups that come and kill our people. I am sure that these huge allocations to the Ministry of the Interior and Co-ordination of National Government in terms of the welfare of the police officers, their insurance cover, housing and equipment both security equipment and the vehicles will transform Kenya into a more secure country. With those many remarks, I am sure the extra areas that the Cabinet Secretary of the National Treasury was creating - the adjustment of Kshs4.1 billion - was mainly going to salaries, financing of foreign projects and more importantly, to deal with the Mumias Sugar Company rights issue. I am sure that the Budget and Appropriations Committee, in its wisdom and in consultation with other committees, has enough time beginning tomorrow to come and make sure that the committees are convinced and bring back that Kshs4.1 billion in the subsequent supplementary budget. I want to thank the House in advance, if we finish today, for beating the deadline of passing the Appropriation Bill of June 27th 2015 which will be on a Saturday. I hope we go to the Third Reading of this Bill today, conclude it and I am sure the President will assent it into law before the deadline of 27th June 2015. I want to thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee, all the committees and Members of the National Assembly."
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