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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mutunga",
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        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to the adoption of the Report on the Budget Policy Statement and the Medium Term Debt Management Strategy by the Committee. I would like to declare that I am a Member of this Committee; very many issues were discussed and interrogated as it were. Looking at the entire Report and the discussions that went on, as the Chair of the Committee said, there is a misunderstanding between policy statement and estimates. This is because most of the implementers of various projects and programmes and those who run the business of the Government appeared to want more. We realised that in most cases, they were requesting for more money than was proposed in the BPS. The tendency to want more is something that is inherent when an opportunity arises. I remember during the Chemistry lessons sometime back, there was a rule called Markovnikov’s rule. It was a nucleophilic substitution rule which speaks about those who have will be given more. The Bible backs up this particular provision. It says that for them that have, more shall be given. It goes further to say that for those who may not have, even the little that they have will be taken away from them and it will be given to those who have more. It is no wonder most of the institutions requested for money and those who are not used to getting a lot of money have remained around the same bracket and some of them have been unable to make 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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