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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I hope you take into account the fact that he took a bit of my time. The reason why I wanted to allow the Chair of the Committee is because he is a man I respect and I was not very happy when they mislead the people of Mbita. I want to thank you if you have put aside money for Tom Mboya. I do not care whether it comes through NG-CDF or other means, so long as it supports what you have promised to do to the people of Mbita. What I am not happy about, because it was priority number one, is security. The priority number of the people of Mbita was security. The causeway was already in progress. So it was putting money to complete it. It was launched by the then Minister Hon. Bett and then Prime Minister Raila Amolo Odinga, so it was work in progress. Even then, it was a causeway. So even if we did not have a bridge, people would still pass. It would help the ecology, but people would still pass. I am happy. I know I am coming back as MP for Mbita. What we have promised is to ensure that security is enhanced. If it means I have to come back to the budget committee, I will be there so that we make sure that the fishermen of Mbita are adequately protected. We are tired of being arrested and taken to Uganda every week. Sometimes the people of Mbita ask me to come and ask the Government of Kenya whether we are in Kenya or Uganda. If we are not in Kenya, then we move to Uganda. We are being treated as though we are not citizens of this country. The other reason why I am not happy is because in this House we had a quiet agreement as Members of Parliament, the ones that we are not supposed to come and say in the open, that money which was meant for NG-CDF was supposed to go through the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and be allocated to schools that MPs who know the needs of specific schools have identified. In Mbita, because I have two predominant communities—Suba and Luo—they went and picked schools which are predominantly Suba and removed their allocations. And that is a minority community. I am not happy. That is why I am not praising. I would be happy if you gave us all our money, which was Kshs34 million. If that is not possible, let it be considered that no NG-CDF money went to the ministry. That was the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology money and the NG-CDF is intact. When the court matter is complete, let the entire money that was stopped by virtue of the court order be given to us. The other reason why I am not happy is that this budget seems very election-geared or election-persuaded, more like what we have seen with IDPs. All these years we have been here, even with the report that we passed as a select committee saying which IDPs and integrated IDPs have not been compensated. Only yesterday the President was rewarding the IDPs in Kisii. The allocation that was given to them is very small compared to the ones…I know other areas where people were built houses and given extra money. Kisii is being given very little. We still have integrated IDPs from western Kenya and other parts of Nyanza who have not been paid. That is why you see the money allocated to livestock, which is very laudable, is very election-geared. We want the Government not to do a budget that is election-geared but that serves the entire Kenya. I would be very happy if I saw that we also provided for integrated IDPs from other areas. I have in my constituency a young man called John; I have given him some tools of trade to start working with. He has no legs. He lost them during the election period. He has a sickly wife. Every day I have to send him money for daily subsistence. And we hear other places people are being compensated, but in other parts of the country they are not being compensated. 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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