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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyamweya",
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        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "agricultural areas where people are growing wheat, maize - I come from Kisii which is hilly - people will not be able to move to the market places. I thought that roads should have been given priority in the allocation of funds. Of course, we are hearing high sounding words of setting up intensive care units in district hospitals while we know very well that the equipment has been bought but there is no space or buildings to house the equipment. We have no manpower, we have no doctors and specialised people to run the X-rays machines. In a district where I come from, the district hospitals do not have a gynaecologist. They are manned by clinical officers. In you go to the sub-district hospitals, they are manned by nurses. You put money to buy equipment to go and rot! This is money which has been got by Kenyans. That is why I say, if I were in Jubilee, I would request that this Bill be withdrawn. But because they want to vote themselves out of power, let it be. Let them spend the money the way they want. The national debt has shot up to 31.5 per cent of the national revenue. The Government learns as we learn. If you are going to take 31.5 per cent of your money to pay a loan, what are you left with to feed your family? What are you left with if you are constructing a house? These are very basic issues that we need to ask ourselves. Are we doing the right thing for this country? This is money and resources for this country and should be used in a way to reduce poverty. It should be used in a way to make the old lady at home, the aged --- I wish you could hear when the leadership speaks. They say they are going to give money to the aged women and aged men. They say that yet the money allocated for the same people is the same amount this Financial Year. We need to say we do not have enough then find the money. We should be honest to each other and carry this country together. That is so that the revenue which is raised and shared goes to the correct purpose and that is how it can alleviate the suffering of the ordinary person. We anticipated money for the aged to increase this Financial Year. That was the mood which was created. That is what the leadership of Jubilee says when it speaks. When you go through this Bill, that amount is the same though the number of old people has increased. The worst situation is about the reengineering of the National Youth Service (NYS). Everybody knows what has happened there. I am shocked that they have allocated Kshs9.5 billion to NYS again. They have put more money even before they do self audit, assess what has happened and the damage done. They are even putting more money where there are no office holders. As we speak, there are no substantive office holders in some positions at NYS. Budget runs for 12 months. It is a very short time. Another issue is about this Equalisation Fund for the marginalised community. This figure is put at Kshs6 billion every year. However, they do not get a shilling until they want to form a party so that they can rescue themselves. The lies have been too much. I find it difficult that the National Assembly can say “this is revenue going to pastoralist community” yet we know that this money has year in, year out, never reached them. Is it for purposes of balancing the books? What are we doing here and now? Do we want to balance the books for the sake of it? Another issue is security, which is a key area for this country. Much money has been contributed for security. We even passed some budgets of around Kshs13 billion, almost immediately we came to this National Assembly. It was a very contentious issue when Safaricom was awarded the tender. It was to modernise security, look for criminals and indicate where policemen were working. We are doing our third year. I have seen some cameras, but I am not sure whether they are working. That money went and nobody talks about whether the project was successful and crime rate has gone down. That is the purpose for which this money was allocated. We should not take security for granted. It needs to be properly funded. Of course, the 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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