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    "id": 908776,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Rural, CCU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Mboni",
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        "legal_name": "David Mwalika Mboni",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. First, I would like to thank the Committee for coming up with a balanced budget given the resources available. I think it is high time we come up with a balanced budget. When we look at the Budget, the demand for resources is quite high but the economy has really stagnated and, therefore, we cannot raise resources and revenues as required. We need to look at the expenditures which we have. Currently, the recurrent expenditure is going up, while the development expenditure is going down. As a Parliament, we need to look at some of the things which we feel are raising expenditures, especially the recurrent expenditure. When you look at the MDAs, trainings, conferences and hospitality are taking a lot of money. I will tell you for free that most of those trainings and conferences are done at the last quarters of every year. That is where we lose a lot of money. We also need to look at the independent commissions that exist. As a country, do we need commissioners who are permanent or those who are part-time? Each commission has a secretariat that should be doing the work. So, we need to have commissioners who are part-time."
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