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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gethenji",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Ndungu Gethenji",
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    "content": "Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, we had made a provision for support of modernisation of the Ministry of Defence. We would wish and have made a recommendation that additional funding be made to the Ministry of Defence through the Estimates and additional programmes to enable it engage and embark aggressively in a strong modernisation programme that will allow us to meet the contemporary threats we are facing from the estimated warfare from the Al Shabaab and challenges we have faced in Somalia and our country. I would like to mention something that was raised by the sometimes cantankerous, loud and wayward logicless thinking of my good brother, Hon. Chris Wamalwa. He suggested that the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations did not adopt the Report presented to the Liaison Committee. That is the farthest thing from the truth. In fact, Hon. Wamalwa appended his signature to the adopted Report. For him to come to the Floor of the House to level such wild and baseless accusations is irresponsible, dishonest and it is in keeping with his character and nature in conducting business in this House. As we move forward to the Finance Bill and the Budget-making process, I wish we could have a very rigorous interrogation of the Budget and Estimates brought to this House in keeping with the previous years’ Budgets passed and a proper catalogue of programmes undertaken under the last Budget and the ones being presented for the current financial year. This is so that we compare and contrast to see the programmes that have been funded, the ones that are underway and what has not been started. This is an area with overlap, leakage and duplication of programmes. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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