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    "id": 908767,
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    "speaker_name": "Ndhiwa, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Martin Owino",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Peters Owino",
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    "content": "we come to do a recommendation, the BAC cannot trample on that. They have to listen. It is because we are very grateful to the President. This is the first time health has been put on the frontline. What we recommended is in line with the World Health Organisation (WHO). We want to invest in primary healthcare more so as to ensure that we eventually have quality healthcare. That is why we made those proposals. They cannot, just by a stroke of a pen, change everything that the Committee has done. What we are going to do is ask Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah – and I hope he is listening to this and not just engaging in talking – to look at the amendments coming to them very carefully. That is so that we can support it in good faith. I support Hon. Eseli on this. I have gone through the Budget, but I do not see how items are lined up for the Big Four Agenda. They are scattered everywhere. For example, when we do a budget, we have to have the outcomes in front of us. The project that failed the previous year should not be funded again. For instance, I was waiting to see how unemployment among the youth will be reduced. I saw the column on youth fund is also reduced and the money taken somewhere. I was waiting to see how many small industries in manufacturing are created in the constituencies, so that we can reduce unemployment. I did not see anything to that effect. How about shelters for the widows? We are only talking about urban shelters but we do not balance it in the rural settings. I am so disappointed. A lot of money is put into looking for water underground. If we could allocate some reasonable money for Lake Victoria to fight the hyacinth which is spoiling that lake, we can supply the whole of western and Nyanza region. I do not see any amount of money put here. I was also looking to see money for Kisumu Cotton Mills (KICOMI) to improve cotton growing just like we have in RIVATEX. I do not see anything. I am a bit disappointed. In education, I think one of the Members has talked about the infrastructure. That money is not being distributed equitably. I would like to see the implementers put that money into constituencies so that fairness can be seen and motivation can be enhanced."
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