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    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "at their own pleasure. That should stop. We have heard complaints where departments like security and agriculture ask us to give them more money because the National Treasury has reduced their budget without any due reference to the people who are preparing the figures. The Supplementary Budget has requests for some money, particularly for the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB). That is right because most of our children are now going to universities. In most cases, they come back to us to give them bursaries from the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). Those bursaries are not enough because a student doing a parallel programme requires like Kshs75,000 per semester. Because there are so many people, you will find yourself giving a student only Kshs20,000. In my case, I was forced to reduce what I had approved. Sometimes, voters come to me directly and I promise to give them Kshs25,000. I am forced to come down to Kshs8,000, which is not enough. I reluctantly support. I hope this money will go to HELB to help our students. When you look at the expenditure as proposed by the Leader of the Majority Party, the Cabinet approved 47 per cent of the Budget for Development Expenditure and 52.6 per cent for Recurrent Expenditure. Something is not in order. I think for this country to move, it should be the other way round. We should have more money for development. There are so many projects that are stalling out there. We need funds to be able to move forward. As it is now, we have more funds going towards Recurrent Expenditure. Something should be done about the wage bill in this country. There are people who do not even deserve what they are getting. There are those who get less than what they should get in terms of wages. Something is not right. I have been a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for a very big organization in this country. The introduction of performance contracting made the people to work. As Hon. Makali has mentioned, the output of most of the parastatals is suspect. Maybe, it is because of the corruption that is in this country. It has become a habit. As far as I am concerned, we should enforce the performance contracting scheme so that people are given targets and, at the end of the year, we monitor their performance. I do not know what happened to the Efficiency Monitoring Unit (EMU) in the Office of the President. I have no idea what is happening in this country. My performance as a CEO spoke for itself. We had targets which we had to meet. Now, we have people who are just working by groping in the dark and there is nothing to show. I want to challenge the EMU in the Office of the President to do its work. We have people who are supposed to find out whether people are actually working properly or not. Thirdly, on performance contracting which sets targets, we have no idea whether people are meeting their targets or not. That programme should be reinforced so that people who are given targets are monitored by EMU. At the end of the financial year, when people report, it should be able to find out whether targets are being met or not. To conclude, we have set aside some money for the recruitment of 10,000 police officers. That is something that can be justified because we did not expect it. I want to thank the Government for that programme because the worldwide expectation is that one police officer should be in charge of 450 citizens. In this country, the ratio is not very good. The money that is going to the recruitment of police officers is okay. We want to meet the international standards of the ratio of police officers to civilians. That is something that I agree with. However, people should be able to give the right figures at the beginning of the year, rather than bothering us towards the tail-end of the financial year by asking us for money for programmes that are supposed to have been covered in the entire year. With that, I support the Bill. 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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