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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oyoo",
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        "legal_name": "James Onyango Oyoo",
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    "content": "achievements on things that, when you go out there practically, are either non-existent or just being started. I will start with security. It is the cardinal job of any Government in place to secure its citizenry and their property. However, all Members who are present in this House will attest that there is mayhem everywhere. If you visit Baringo, you will wonder why we should take our security agencies or personnel to secure Somali when we have serious security challenges in Kenya. There are some people in Baringo who are exporting foodstuffs before the locals have taken good enough of it. With regard to the economy, anybody who lives in Kenya, save for a few affluent families which are seriously politically-correct individuals in Jubilee Government, is struggling to lay food on the table for their families, including Members of Parliament. The cost of living is so biting that Kenya has become like a supermarket. We are importing goods and stocking them in the supermarkets. We are hardly producing things which we can export, or use in barter trade. There is nothing. The economy is not performing. The infrastructure was done by the Kibaki Government. We must put credit where it belongs. The Kibaki Government or the nusu mkate Government did its best in improving the infrastructure in this country. I do not think the Jubilee Government has done much in improving the infrastructure. If you want to prove me right, five months to the elections, the Head of State and his deputy are behaving as if they are beginning the Government today. They are busy kick- starting infrastructural programmes without even budgetary provisions. We understand that some of them are likely to benefit from the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) kitty which we passed here recently in the Appropriation Bill. We have been waiting for the monies to come to our counties. We were assured on the Floor of this House that the monies passed here would be taken to our regional managers, so that they could fund certain programmes that we would prescribe. I put a formal question to the Leader of the Majority Party. I understand that a huge chunk of our money will go to finance some programmes on the low volume seal roads that did not have budgetary back up. I wonder how my money which is meant for Muhoroni Constituency will benefit the low volume seal roads, which are things that have been tailored to either get votes for Jubilee or finance the Jubilee-friendly constituencies or counties. I need those monies and the roads badly in my constituency. So, I would say there is nothing on infrastructure. The huge wage bill is a matter of concern. We need to do an audit with a tooth-comb and see how much deduction we need in our salaries because a lot of noise has been made about Members of Parliament earning a lot of money. When I was outside the House, I thought there was a lot of money. But when I came in, it was different. It is a vice we need to correct. His Excellency the President and his deputy were Members of this House. They know how much you earn as a Member of Parliament and the burden you carry outside. It is not a story that somebody would tell them. If you tell His Excellency the President and the Deputy President about a Member of Parliament’s life, they know it because they were Members of Parliament. I leave it to their conscience. If they believe what we are earning is so much, we need to have it cushioned. However, even if it were to be cut, we need to do serious check on where the wastage is. The real wastage is in the Government. We sit in Parliament and certain people with titles have four or five vehicles following them as if they will be suspended tomorrow. We see them alive every day. We need to cut those reckless spending and save this country. It is not about the Members of Parliament earning or the poor Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs) who have to go home every day and fund every funeral and put up with people begging all the time. 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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