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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kanini Kega",
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        "legal_name": "James Mathenge Kanini Kega",
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    "content": "For the Department of Small and Medium Enterprise, that is straight. The Committee observed that the construction of Kubik building in Parklands has stalled for so many years. This is a building that I think everybody knows about. It is next to K1 Club in Westlands. That building has been there for over 12 years. It is 95 per cent complete. It just needs about Kshs102 million. Unfortunately that building has stalled for so many years. The Ministry is renting offices. They are spending almost Kshs200 million renting offices but, if that building is completed, we will for sure know that we will be saving the taxpayers’ money. Further, the completion of Kubik will save the State Department over Kshs200 million that we are currently paying to Telkom. For this reason, the Committee recommended to reallocate the Kshs200 million from construction of constituency centered projects to Kubik for the completion of the office block. However, as I said earlier on, even the Kshs200 million that we were recommending to move from constituencies has now been raided. Regarding the State Department of Industry which has the largest mandate amongst the three departments, the Committee was concerned that there was no linkage in terms of the budget proposal between the National Treasury and the State Department of Industry and this has led to major recommendations by our Committee, which is given in the annexure. The Big Four Agenda envisages an increase in revenue from textile industry from US$350 million to US$2billion. To create 500,000 cotton jobs and 100,000 new apparel jobs by the year 2022 requires increased production of cotton. This calls for technical service on cotton production and value addition. In this regard, the Committee recommended for the increase in allocation towards contracted technical service on cotton production by Kshs200 million."
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