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    "id": 801772,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wakhungu",
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        "legal_name": "Chrisantus Wamalwa Wakhungu",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First and foremost, I want to congratulate the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the work which was done well. We have always been talking about this as a budget-making House. We are in a presidential system where Parliament is a budget-making House. It is very unfortunate because this Parliament was more of a rubberstamp than a budget-making House in the last term. However, I can see some improvements this time because we will not just stamp whatever will be brought here. I want to, quickly, mention something about education. So many teachers are suffering because they have not been paid their pension to date. I have just gone through the Schedule with my brother here and it is very unfortunate because we do not have an allocation for the teachers’ pension in this financial year. Teachers who have retired should be given their money. For how long are they going to wait for their money? We will bring an amendment, so that we can make a provision for the teachers’ pension, which has been long overdue. Secondly, I want to ask the Budget and Appropriations Committee to tell us the criterion they have used to sample the counties. We must understand the sampling framework because the essence of public participation, when it comes to the budget-making process, is for them to go to a specific county, listen to them and understand their problems, so that they factor it into the budget allocations. We have not had any project for the last four years in Trans Nzoia County. The Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee should listen to me. This is something that the Committee should be aware of. Hon. Ichung’wah should listen to some of the comments we put across and understand our concerns, so that at a later stage, when we bring amendments… The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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