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    "id": 841991,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "Currently, through the new Constitution, we have been given an opportunity to discuss and if possible, change, amend and do anything that we need to do for the benefit of the country. That goes with responsibility. You must be sure of how you want to execute that responsibility for the good of the country. It is very clear that austerity measures are needed at this point in time in our country. We have said that as a party, House and leaders. Secondly, I congratulate the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the good work they have done within the short time period they were given to look into the Supplementary Estimates. Yesterday when I was alone, I was thinking aloud on how this Committee will attend to this matter with the short period of time they had which was hours and not even a whole day. They have come out as brave men and women. I congratulate the NASA Coalition Members who are in that Committee. They have done a good job. They have come up with a Supplementary Budget that can resonate well with the House. Look at the issue of the NG-CDF. That is a very important matter to the Members of Parliament. There was a reduction of Kshs6 billion from that Fund. In their own wisdom, they neither increased nor decreased the allocation, but adhered to the statutory requirement of the law that the NG-CDF must be 2.5 per cent of the revenue. That came to Kshs33 billion. They just applied the law as required. The other issue is about the County Woman Representative’s Fund. About Kshs2 billion was removed. The Budget and Appropriations Committee, through the Chairman, Hon. Ichung’wah, in their own wisdom, brought back that Fund to take care of the affirmative action programmes that are in place in this country. I beseech Members to support this Supplementary Budget whichever side of the House you belong to. There was no other way the Committee could have done justice to the Supplementary Budget. The Kshs1.5 billion has been allocated to the Judiciary. The other day, the Chief Justice was complaining in a Press conference that he has no money to fund courts and new buildings have stalled. Under the Supplementary Estimates, there is Kshs1.5 billion for the Judiciary. There is more money allocated to the Director of Public Prosecutions, so that corruption can be fought and more money goes back to the Exchequer. As a Member of this House, I plead with the Members to pass this Motion and in the afternoon, we pass the Appropriations Bill so that we are seen to be people who take care of the interests of both the people of the Republic and the Government or the Executive on whose behalf we have been given the responsibility to legislate. It is very popular to say “No”. We have been in the “No camp” for many years. Some of us went to jail for saying “No”. You cannot close your eyes to reality."
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