Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 908809,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/908809/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 303,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "North Imenti, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Rahim Dawood",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2572,
        "legal_name": "Abdul Rahim Dawood",
        "slug": "abdul-rahim-dawood"
    },
    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support this Budget proposal. The whole Report is good but I think we need to interrogate the CS together with the Executive because the budget deficit keeps going up every year. We need to put the Executive in check because when we have such a big budget deficit, the end result is we cloud out the individual borrowers and they cannot service their loans. I want to congratulate His Excellency the President because on Madaraka Day, he talked about pending bills. It is very important for us to bring to Parliament the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act and amend it so that pending bills do not go beyond three months. If they are more than three months, then interest should be paid. This is because our people out there are having problems servicing loans and their properties are being auctioned. Many of them have even committed suicide because they cannot face their creditors. So, we need to conclude the issues regarding pending bills. Completion of projects is very important because we have many stalled projects. But in the spirit of completing projects, we should not be putting money into white elephant projects because they require a lot of money. If we allocate them money, then we are just putting it down the hole. It is important for the national Government to audit the conditional grants to hospitals and especially the Meru Level 5 Hospital. A lot of money goes to that hospital. The other day, they broke an incinerator and yet, they do not have plans to build another one or do not know how to go about such an issue. They have equipment which is just lying around and nobody takes care of it. Health services are deteriorating and, last month, somebody died because the generator was not working. We cannot have those kinds of issues happening in this day and age. Meru is not small but a big place. The Level 5 Hospital caters for about five to six counties and it is like a referral hospital. Therefore, we should look into these issues as well. We also need to increase funding for TVETs because they are the way to go in this country. They have been given Kshs4 billion and I want to request the Chair of Budget and Appropriations Committee in future to give them more money so that we can industrialise through them because it is the way to go. The emergency fund for road repairs was removed. I believe we need to give more money to the roads so that we can repair them after they were damaged by rains. We need to see the roads which were passed by the previous Parliament…"
}