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    "id": 729965,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/729965/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Manje",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 1669,
        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
        "slug": "joseph-wathigo-manje"
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    "content": "The amount of money we are giving to the State Department of Agriculture is about Kshs16 billion and Kshs6 billion goes to the recurrent budget. What goes to capital production is only Kshs10 billion. If you compare the State Department for Agriculture to other departments, you will find that it is underfunded. We need to look into the State Departments in the Government which are directly involved with production of basic necessities like the State Department of Livestock, Fisheries and Blue Economy and Irrigation. If we compare and see the amount of money that we give to them compared to other departments, we will realise that we are not taking resources where they are required. We need to have a marshal plan to alleviate unemployment in this country. If you visit several parts of our country, you will find so many idle youth. This means that we are missing the point because we are not directing resources to the production sector. I combined all these sectors and realised that they are getting a total of about Kshs42 billion. It is good to do mathematics, so that you can understand that we are not directing resources properly. If you look at all the five State Departments of the Government that I have mentioned, they are getting a total of Kshs42 billion. If you compare them with only one department, for example, the State Department for University Education, which is getting about Kshs98 billion, that is more than twice the allocation in the agriculture sector yet our economy is based on agriculture. I think we should have a paradigm shift in where we take our resources, so that we can start employing our youth who are idle in our towns. We should direct resources to the right direction. The State Department for Social Protection is getting about Kshs24 billion, which is more than the allocation to agriculture, meaning that we have given priority to protection instead of production. If we take the right direction, this country will be realigned to where it was and our economy will start growing again, competing with economies like Malaysia. I support the Report. In future, we should try to cater for that."
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