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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kioni",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ng'ayu Kioni",
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    "content": "I see there is a change of guard. One of the reasons public participation was included in the budget-making process was… There before Budgets were being made in the Treasury by Ministers. When they were making those Budgets, they would favour their areas. As this BAC endeavours to implement the provisions of the Constitution and the Public Finance Management Act, it must also make sure that the Members in that Committee do not fall into the same trap of looking at the areas they come from and favouring them in one way or another. If that happens, we will call them out. I say this because I hear we could not hold public participation in all the counties. It is also necessary for us to be told exactly what happened with the random sampling or whatever method they used to arrive at the number of counties they went to. It must be well communicated to the public. We must be able to buy into it. The reasons that have been adduced here are not convincing enough. We do not want them to select counties and go to them for any other reason other than for the work they are meant to do. The question that begs for an answer is that we hear they went to Bungoma among other counties. I say Bungoma because Members from there talked about it just a while ago. They did not come to Nyandarua. They have taken the views of the people of Bungoma. How is it that they arrived at some proposals for the people of Nyandarua? There are two standards. Those in Bungoma said what they want but others sat in an office and decided what the people of Nyandarua want. We must be very careful with that kind of a position. I talk about Nyandarua because the President was there on two or three occasions before the conclusion of the last elections. He kept repeating that Nyandarua is a marginalised county. I do not know why the budget-making team did not capture that. For the reason that we had even been promised that dams would be done in that area. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you come from a county neighbouring mine, Laikipia. You are also supposed to be a beneficiary of the three dams of Kinja, Malewa and Pesi. The bad news is they are not in this Budget; not a coin was allocated to them. We really need to know why that happened. Why that omission? When tomatoes are rotting in Laikipia, they will rot in Ndaragwa. When we talk about roads, we suffer the same. It is important we support that provision of Kshs30 million per constituency. Certainly, we in Ndaragwa needed the money like yesterday because our roads have also been heavily damaged by the rains. Without that Kshs30 million, we would really be doing very badly, not just in Ndaragwa or Nyandarua; I know it is across the whole country. A good budget-making process will entail a principle that, what has already been started, its funding started, would be funded in the coming year. I have a road in Ndaragwa Constituency that was funded five years ago. Funding was cut. There are no funds where we are today. I can 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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