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    "id": 801906,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Shaban",
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        "legal_name": "Naomi Namsi Shaban",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. It is the mandate of Parliament to make sure that the Budget of this country is realised once the Executive has made its suggestions, on how they want the outlook of that Budget to be. I want to commend the Budget and Appropriations Committee for putting in extra hours and working very hard to make sure that, despite the constraints, they have tried to redistribute what we thought was necessary and more so, in areas where they went for public hearings. I have seen them make some provisions for those areas to cater for some of the bridges, roads, dams because that is what the public want. It is not easy for this kind of work to be done within the stipulated timelines which have been set in the Constitution. Like I said, I have seen a big difference in the sense that even Chairs of committees have actually been able to come to the Floor of the House this year and explain some of the reallocations they had suggested to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, so that Parliament and Kenyans can appreciate the work which has been put in this document. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is obvious and it is a big cry for this country that quite a big amount of money is being misused. Going forward, something must be done about it. The President has been agonizing about the problems of corruption yet year in, year out we have a lot of wastage in our country. I have seen quite a lot of reallocations towards the military and I was just concerned. When you look at the Big Four Agenda that the President has set to work on, I am really concerned that most of the reallocations should have gone to those four areas. The Ministry of Industrialization which should be spearheading manufacturing has not been well funded, in my opinion. In fact, money was reallocated from them to the other State Departments. I think we need to look at the Big Four Agenda and give them enough budgetary allocations so that they can carry out and realise the dream and the vision of the President as he does his second term. The ASAL is a very important area. Of course, floods are now all over the place… It is worse in those ASAL areas. From floods you will go to drought. Quite a bit of funding should have been put in that area. I feel that department has not been given enough funding to deal with issues of climate change which have been affecting those areas. All the same, I think it was a difficult balancing act and the committee has done a good job."
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