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    "id": 841564,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "I know that my colleagues would also want to contribute. We must now read our Budget with a fine tooth-comb, so as to see some of the principles that are being proposed. For example, we have been told that the budget on security is huge because it is a strategic item for this country, yet that is where the largest source of looters‟ fund is found in our Budget. We were told that a wall was being built somewhere close to Somalia, we have not seen it, yet it has cost almost Kshs15 billion in the last three or four years. We were always told that we cannot visit that place because it is unsafe. If it unsafe, which contractor is building it? Is it being built by the Al Shabaab ? Have they contracted the Al Shabaab? We were told that we are supposed to single-source because we are a Commonwealth country. Therefore, when we buy guns or helicopters, we do not even open the tenders to the public. What is secret about a helicopter that will be flying in the air? Some of these theories are stone-age and archaic thinking that we need to do away with. If the President is looking for places to reduce part of public expenditure, that is one direction that I want to point out to him. Madam Temporary Speaker, in the interest of time, I thank Sen. Wetangula for bringing these issues to the fore. It will enable us to debate them soberly and find ways in which we can provide solutions."
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