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    "id": 878677,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/878677/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2840,
        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
        "slug": "junet-sheikh-nuh"
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    "content": "Let me begin by addressing the plans pronounced by the Government under the so called Big Four Agenda. The proposed expenditure allocations indicate business as usual approach. This BPS is just telling Parliament to do things in what we normally call business as usual. There is nothing new that is contained in this BPS. This Report indicates that the bulk of the ministerial expenditure which is 26 per cent goes to the education sector and 22.3 per cent to the Energy, Infrastructure and ICT. Public Administration and International Relations Sector gets 14.9 per cent while as Governance, Justice, Law and Order gets 11. 2 per cent. However, critical sectors that are the drivers of the Big Four Agenda such as the general economic and commercial affairs as well as agriculture, rural and urban development under which manufacturing, food security and affordable housing are domiciled are the least funded with a total allocation of Kshs 23.9 billion. If you have not given the Big Four Agenda, how do you intend to achieve them? Unless they are just stories that you are telling people; you can only achieve those agenda, when you fund them properly. This is despite the promise in the BPS that resource allocation will be aligned to projects and programmes that are the drivers of the Big Four Agenda. This is a clear case that the Government is not walking the talk in the realisation of the Big Four Agenda. There is no accountability framework to facilitate spending on the Big Four Agenda. That is why big projects like Galana Kulalu Irrigation Development Project are failing. There is no proper accountability framework that was put in place to make sure that the big agenda expenditures are accounted for. We just allocate resources in billions. We want to do big dams but there is no accountability framework to make sure that this money is spent in the right manner. Two weeks ago, the Leader of the Majority Party tabled a report showing how projects have stalled. I take note that this list was not exhaustive and therefore the Executive never informed this House accordingly. I am sure it is one of the projects that have stalled. I also note that many projects which were outlined as flagship projects under the Vision 2030 and the second medium term were never completed. A case in point of those projects is the construction and equipment of forensic laboratory by the State Department of Interior. The DCI is in top gear investigating many cases, but they do not have a forensic laboratory to do that work. That thing has been pending for many years and it was part of the Vision 2030 flagship projects. How do you intend to have a top notch"
}