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    "id": 729957,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/729957/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyamweya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 391,
        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "Budget. I have always said so. It is the National Assembly which allocates funds and the Executive gives us the Budget. Once you have allocated money, it is used. There has been talk everywhere that one has to be in the Government in order to get development projects in his or her area. I want to tell my colleagues here and people out there that funds are allocated in the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya and that is what we are doing today. We are now in the budget-making process. We approve funds here. The Cabinet Secretary (CS) for the National Treasury will read the Budget and that is when various agents of the Government will draw funds for usage, be it for roads or water. It has to be very clear to everybody that, that is how the Government works. We should not listen to propaganda being propagated around that one needs to be in Jubilee to get development projects. No! Funds are allocated in the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya. That is why we are seated here today to discuss the Budget. What worries me in this Budget is the amount of money which has been reduced from the allocation for the National Police Service (NPS). We are going through an election year and yet they have cut money meant for modernisation of the NPS. If you start a project, do it halfway and then you fail to inject more money into it the following year, you will surely get white elephant projects. It does not make sense for the Government to stop modernising the NPS. We need to have in place a modern NPS. We need the police to have better housing. It is unfortunate that a good amount of money that would have gone towards that effort has been reduced from this Budget. Even the budget on leasing has been reduced. We are in an election year and if you reduce the amount of money allocated to cater for leasing expenses, it means that even the vehicles which are taken to Toyota Kenya for service are going to break down. How are they going to move from one point to another? It is saddening. We need to look at the figures because figures do not lie. I have looked at the deduction of money in the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government. This is not acceptable. What is going to happen? There will be over- expenditure. They will spend without authority because they must run and then we will raise unnecessary queries. We are seated in the National Assembly and we should give them money because we know they need it. It is not something we do not know, but because we want to balance books and look ambitious, we reduce the amount. We know very well they must get the money."
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