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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyamweya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute to this Motion. First and foremost, I register my disappointment with the Budget and Appropriations Committee for approving this. The reasons given for the Supplementary Estimates are the national debt and paying pensioners. That is not an excuse for anybody to come to this House and ask for increased budgetary allocation. This money was budgeted for. It is not reason enough for me to support it. Another point is on total deductions on external funding. Total reduction on foreign aid stands at Kshs51 billion. If you compare it to the Budget of last year, it is almost equivalent to the full amount which we were to get from donors. This was not realised. How do we make this Budget? How do we allocate money for programmes? We were not sure whether those people would give us money. I find it impossible to support this Supplementary Budget. It is not mandatory for Parliament to pass this. This can be categorised under bills which were paid without parliamentary approval. We have been crying for roads everywhere. The amount of deduction for roads with regard to direct donor funding is Kshs16 billion. Where will the money to build roads come from if the Government and the Ministry of National Treasury do not provide the Kshs16 billion? We all need roads. The Government has reduced the allocation to roads by Kshs440 million. I find it difficult to see how we can pass this as the National Assembly. A more distressing point is with regard to teachers who are pensioners and who taught all of us seated here today. A ruling was made for them to be paid pension. The Government, through the National Treasury, is not ready to part with a shilling. I expected us to, at least, show a token of appreciation and pay teachers. They have gone to court which has ruled in their favour. The former Teachers Service Commission (TSC) Secretary was supposed to have been jailed. We sit here to approve this Supplementary Budget without including the payment of teachers – pensioners who taught all of us. They have been in court severally. I find it difficult to support the Supplementary Budget. 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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