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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wamunyinyi",
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        "legal_name": "Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to make a comment on this. I would like to say that the budget-making process is a serious business for Members of Parliament. Because of my discomfort, I would like to suggest that on these proposed amendments, each item should be given a Vote on its own. We should vote for each one of them. They should not be brought as guillotine. There are two items that I would like to draw your attention to. One, which is important to us, is the Centre for Parliamentary Studies. We commend the efforts to ensure its development. I am happy because I have been involved in linking up the Director with members of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research in Geneva. They are now working together. We need to develop the institute. I am very uncomfortable with the error of Kshs705.2 billion that you detected. How do you confuse Kshs705.2 million with Kshs705.2 billion? A billion is not something you can print and bring to Parliament without looking at it. I understand these figures have changed and in fact, there was also Kshs1.5 billion for the same. There have been several changes on this item. Looking at it, it is to the State Department for Planning and Statistics for the LBDA towards payment of pending bills for construction of a mall in Kisumu. We are happy with malls in every town because they are development, but we have challenges. We have deficits and problems and then you are again putting money for pending bills for construction of a mall in Kisumu. Why do they not spend the money collected from rent to pay the bills? We are not going to be used for loans. I disagree and call on Members to reject this item. I think that is why he is changing these figures every now and then. The Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade should not tell us that this money should be allocated to pay for a mall. We should vote on every item."
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