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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. I have few points to make. This Budget is programme-based and it will be effective as from 1st July this year. I, however, note that there are some few things that it needs to address, for example, the wage bill. When His Excellency the President was addressing this House a few days ago, he talked of a very expanded or near-boiling-point wage bill with regard to public servants. It is time we addressed that problem. It has been said that there was a presidential taskforce on parastatals. This is the time to implement it. We need to either merge, collapse, or scrap some of the parastatals. By doing so, we will reduce the wage bill. A socio-economic audit was done on these parastatals. I remember we passed a budget in this House and that exercise was allocated Kshs80 million. Again, in the Budget we are discussing now, there is an allocation of Kshs250 million for the same socio- economic audit starting from the constituency level. If we implement that, it could help reduce the wage bill. There is also need to consider, maybe, not the number of commissions and independent offices that we have, but the minimum number that is required in the Constitution. I am talking about membership of three persons as opposed to the maximum membership of nine persons as it is now. 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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