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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F. K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I thank you for giving me this opportunity. I also thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Since this programme is sectorial, I hope we will not have supplementary budgets. We recently had Supplementary Budgets II and III come almost at the time of Budget reading. I hope that the various sectors will live up to the programmes and do their work properly so that we can see the fruits of our sweat. Secondly, auditing is done in parastatals where the Government has more than 50 per cent shares. We have given out the money now. We need auditors to go to institutions where the Government has an investment of even 10 per cent to tell us what is happening. It was mentioned by somebody at the beginning that some parastatals are not even reporting the Appropriations-in- Aid (A-in-A). Therefore, some of the information we get is half-baked. I also ask the Committee Chairman to make sure that the Efficiency Monitoring Unit (EMU) under the Office of the President goes after the parastatals that do not report the A-in-A. Hon. Deputy Speaker, thirdly, accountability in some of the parastatals is wanting. We saw in the PIC Report yesterday that the parastatals even have imprests dating as far as 10 or 20 years. That means that the EMU under the Office of the President is not working. We expect them to work and give us regular reports on the same. We have a problem in this country. We need more teachers because we want to educate our children. As I speak here today, it is the parents who are now employing teachers in my constituency. If the money is not enough, we ask the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology to come up with a Supplementary Budget any time from now so that it can be allocated more money to employ more teachers. This is because we have a shortage of more than 80,000 teachers in this country. This is the case and yet we are being told that the little money we are allocating this Ministry will be used to employ 5,000 teachers only. We have a problem in this country. 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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