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    "id": 655786,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Njuki",
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        "legal_name": "Onesmus Muthomi Njuki",
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    "content": "Mile Connection Project, which will ensure that every Kenyan is connected to the grid to enjoy the quality of life that comes with the use of electricity. Even as we appropriate this money, I am perturbed by the expenditure vis-à-vis the development budget. Every time we give out money, most of it goes to Recurrent Expenditure. That money can be reduced by having prudent measures of ensuring that we reduce the unnecessary expenditure. If we continue doing that, we will finance what we call “a budget of hand to mouth” rather than getting Kenyans out of the situation of relying so much on money that is given, instead of money that can generate itself in terms of development projects. It is important that we spend more money in empowering people who are investing to create more jobs and become employers, rather than wait to be employed and even look for more money to pay employees. As I finish, last week in my constituency, we had an incident that most Kenyans have heard about, including you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. The equipment that had been given by the national Government to our Level 5 hospital was stolen. That is an anaesthetic machine for Chuka Level 5 Hospital. The equipment given to the county government was worth Kshs4.5 million. It is not small equipment that can be pocketed or put in the boot of a car. It is supposed to change the lives of mothers in the theatres and operating rooms. When it is stored in a building that is under construction and we still expect the safety of that machine, it leaves a begging question whether we take care of the monies that the taxpayers have given and appropriated by this Parliament to help Kenyans who are suffering in this nation. That is why we are talking about prudent use of funds. This is a disappointment. I join the other Kenyans in condemning that incident. I hope that the long arm of the law will move fast. I hope the County Government of Tharaka Nithi will co-operate and crack the whip to ensure that, that machine is recovered and taken back to Tharaka Nithi, where it can be utilised by the Kenyans there. It is not an ordinary machine. It must have serial numbers. With those few remarks, I support the Motion."
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