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    "id": 91958,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Konchella",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Sitelu Konchella",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support this Motion and commend the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and his team for a sterling job. I think they have made Kenya proud. While I like to talk about the marginalized areas because they were left behind for many years, I believe that the new Constitution will take care of this. We will blame ourselves thereafter and not the Central Government. For this economy to grow and Kenyans to realise employment opportunities, we need to concentrate on major projects. The construction of the Port of Lamu and the northern corridor to Sudan and Ethiopia should be top in the priority list of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance so that more Kenyans are employed. That way, we will have more opportunities to expand our economy. Today, Kenyans are finding it difficult to pay insurance premiums. If you pay insurance premium for your new car, you would think that you would have been better off buying a second-hand car because the premium is too high. We are talking of 7.5 per cent of the value of the car. That is a colossal amount of money. I think the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance should look into this. It appears like the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance is punishing Kenyans for driving cars. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as we go through the Ministries’ budgets, we realise that there is a problem with adherence to the Fiscal Management Act. Perhaps, the officers should establish a team to look at this. There are many problems with regard to pending bills and cheques in many Ministries. A lot of money is, therefore, not utilized. Where a Ministry is unable to spend the money because it lacks capacity, it should be looked at so that the money can be re-located to another Minister to provide proper services. The other issue concerns the sale of parastatals and other Government agencies. We feel that the only way to re-distribute wealth in the country and ensure that all Kenyans benefit is to provide a plan where the majority of people benefit. We do not want to create cartels and monopolies because that is how the country loses money. This is because those people take their excess liquidity out of the country."
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