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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. I want to thank the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee for, at least, this time around, bringing this ritual earlier. It is a ritual because, as Hon. Manje has said, nothing earth- shaking or ground-breaking is here. It is as usual. Pay salaries, allowances, stipends, do not produce and consume. That is what we have here. We are a country of consumers and we aspire to industrialise. We aspire to be a first nation in 20 years. It is not possible. We have been here for the last four years and like I said, it has been a ritual. We go through this every year. Some Ministries do well, others do not absorb the budgets we give to them, but above all, our budgets have never balanced. Every year, we do one Supplementary Budget after another. We do not apply the ethos of budgeting. Our arithmetic does not add up because we do not intend to balance our budgets. Every year, we present figures, the Ministries pass those figures, our revenue collection does not match what we propose to collect, but we still keep going. So, basically it is a juggernaut. It goes on. The way the Constitution was structured was such that this Parliament will rein in on expenditure that is unnecessary. That we would budget and the Executive would implement. But it is not so. If you ask me, the Executive budgets and we just adopt. That is why you heard Hon. Manson say that we should not be talking about the Jubilee Government, but we should be talking about Parliament. But that is not so because, again, the Executive does not implement the 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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