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    "id": 908766,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Peters Owino",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am really grateful for this time. I want to say that the budget-making process is a financial plan. It is a roadmap telling us where we are going. Also, it is a tool that we use to make sure there is no inequality in our country. It must be fair so that people are motivated. The so-called Wanjikus, Aminas, Anyangos or the common people will be motivated when they realise there is something in the Budget that will impact on their lives. We have done budgets for many years but, if you go to my Ndhiwa Constituency, you will still find children learning under trees. The houses or classrooms are not plastered. That is what brings us to the question: Does our Budget have equity? We should look at that very carefully as a House. It is good that this Parliament sits squarely on how the Budget should be done. We cannot just allocate monies to projects and then wait for the Auditor-General to come and tell us what worked and what did not work. If it did not work or if it cannot work, we should see it from that point of view and then not give money to it. That is why we have cries like the one which has been passionately expressed by the Departmental Committee on Health. By the way, they have a lot of passionate technocrats. We do oversee them throughout the year. When 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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