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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitutu Chache North, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jimmy Angwenyi",
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        "legal_name": "Jimmy Nuru Ondieki Angwenyi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this important Bill. The Budget for this nation is dependent on how we can raise revenue. We cannot spend money which we do not have. Like the Chairman has said, our foreign indebtedness has gone so high that we may end up enslaving this country. I would not want to participate in enslaving my own country. I hope the Budget and Appropriations Committee has gone through all the programmes that were intended to be undertaken by both the national Government and the county governments. Where there have been some unnecessary disadvantages in certain constituencies and counties, they should address that issue to make every part of this country feel at home. I have an issue with the allocations given to the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development, especially on roads. I have looked at the original Budget. There were a number of roads which had been given money the previous two financial years, but this year the money has been removed. They could not even leave one pound or shilling to make that item remain active. I hope the Committee looks at that so that it activates those item lines that were active in the previous two years so that they continue being active as we resource the projects being undertaken. My colleague there spoke about counties. The counties are required to be given not less than 15 per cent, just like the National Government Constituencies Development Fund is not supposed to be given less than 2.5 per cent of the national Budget. However, from my calculation, the counties have been given 23 per cent. That is 8 per cent above the minimum requirement as per the Constitution. If the NG-CDF allocation had been 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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