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    "id": 714986,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/714986/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Of course, we know there are many other activities which are at hand that we have to address but with due respect to Hon. A.B. Duale, we should move on as per the Order Paper. It is critical that we pass the Budget Policy Statement. It gives the key priority areas that we must focus on. It is unfortunate because elections are coming in August and we have to align this to the elections. Much of this is coming from the Jubilee Government. It is unfortunate when we, in the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), take over in August next year, we will be implementing a Budget that has been prepared by the Jubilee Government. We must, in future, align the Budget Calendar with the date of elections. Going to the Budget Policy Statement, particularly the issue of division of revenue, it has been something of a controversy. We are talking about vertical division of national revenue. Today we approved the nominees for appointment to the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), who are coming to do this job. How I had wished the issue of the National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF), which is critical, was looked at. This is an element we have to focus on in terms of horizontal division of revenue after we have done the vertical division. We know that health is a devolved function. We have the doctors striking. Kenyans are dying. There was a Collective Bargain Agreement (CBA) where the Government had agreed with officials of the doctors’ union that they would pay them money at this particular time, but looking at this BPS that particular CBA has not been mentioned anywhere. Our people are dying. Where is the money going to come from so that doctors and nurses can be paid? This is something that is supposed to have been highlighted in the BPS. That tells you that the Government is, maybe, not serious."
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