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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Oluoch",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Tom Oluoch",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to the report made by BAC. Allow me to join those who have congratulated this Committee. Budget-making is a very delicate balancing act where resources are being competed against by different interests from different counties and constituencies. It can never be an easy task to do. So allow us to thank them. As I thank them, I want to say that in Nairobi they were able to conduct public participation in Dagoretti, I believe in the constituency of John Kiarie. But going forward, this House should put in place a law that can guide us on public participation in line with Articles 10 and 118 of the Constitution that make public participation mandatory. This is also going to be in line with the chapter on public finance. Not only does the chapter say that public finance shall be used in an equal and equitable manner, it demands that the people are carried along. The tax burden is not only supposed to be carried equally but also the resources themselves are supposed to be taken into account. As we do this, we hope that Parliament will be able to take its oversight role seriously, over and above its budget role. I say this in light of corruption that has been recently revealed; that is crippling this country; that has become not only a disease but a national disaster. As we were debating the President’s Speech, I was thinking to myself that one of the things that, maybe with the benefit of hindsight, the President should have done was to make the fight against 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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