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    "id": 896844,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Laikipia CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Catherine Waruguru",
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        "legal_name": "Catherine Wanjiku Waruguru",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to join the rest of the Members of Parliament who have spoken ahead of me. I laud His Excellency the President of the Republic of Kenya, Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta, on his Presidential Address made on 4th April, 2019. I want to thank him, in particular, for addressing issues that Kenyans highly anticipated that he will highlight and for boosting the confidence of those of us who are in this country struggling because of life being unbearable because of the high cost of living. I want to remind us about the long-term strategies, including the Kenya Vision 2030, the medium-term plan of the year 2018-2021, and the Big Four Agenda that the President has continually been championing. The President came out strongly by stating that the economic growth rate was at 6.1 per cent, which is an improvement from 5.4 per cent. I want to use a language that the ordinary mwananchi will speak out there. When most of us talk about 6.1 per cent economic growth, it may not mean a lot to people who have good income and their income patterns are towards the increasing end. We have a number of Kenyans in this country who earn less than Kshs250 a day. The cost of unga has risen to over Kshs120. Most of those people are not able to afford three meals in a day. I will concentrate on manufacturing. It is one of the Big Four Agenda that the President has been talking about. In my county, Laikipia, we do not have a single industry, a kiwanda, which is functional and which can provide employment other than what the private sector is doing. My concern is one: What are we going to do to make sure that county governments are able to generate enough income so that they do not milk money from the pockets of people who have made it through their blood and sweat? That money is non-existent. The National Treasury and county governments should be well funded to meet the national Budget. There was a time the Budget and Appropriations Committee made a good proposal of asking that the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) be linked with the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) system so that we are able to project how much this country is able to collect against what we will be planning for in any budget that will be coming. Bearing in mind that the Supplementary Budget II is about to come, the big question is: Do we have enough resources to sustain our big ambitions and the projections we have given out as a country? This is a House of rules that has been solely obligated by the Constitution to pass the Budget and legislations that will take care of the interests of our people. My concern is: Are we 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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