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    "id": 92078,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 97,
        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to fully support this Ministry. It is this Ministry that brought the first development to Kenya. During those days of the Master Planner, Mr. Tom Mboya, if you remember, there was the 1 million acre scheme. If that scheme or programme had been expanded to 2 million acres, 3 million acres and so forth, we would not have the squatter problem that we have now. The hon. Minister knows too well that anything the Minister for Finance is doing, unless it is coherent, it can be as chaotic as somebody, who is not very sober; trying to spend money which is in the pocket. You need to look at the net gain in what you will do. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, in talking of good plans this Ministry has come up with innovative ideas in the past. If you remember the District Focus for Rural Development Strategy was mismanaged not by this Ministry but by other forces. Had we carried on, this would fit in well with the proposed county system. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we need to support this Ministry so that they can be in charge of all the planning that we want to have. I can see our senior Minister in charge of internal security here. If people will expand Kayole, Dandora and other places and there are no ready plans, then there will be very high crime rate; the Minister in charge of internal security will be called upon to do things which could have been done in the first place. At the initial stage of planning we should have adequate police stations and roads that will enable the police move as fast as they can. We have a problem now because from 1979 we have ignored, almost completely, that Ministry. The development of the Port of Mombasa was stolen by Dubai because they saw it was noble. The development of the highways was taken by Thailand; they took our proposed system. The list is endless. In Habaswein we have enough water under surface to supply the city of Nairobi. If the Minister in charge of planning could come up with that, we would not have to import food. I know time is a constraint, and I want to support this Vote wholeheartedly, and recommend that this Ministry gets all that it needs in terms of manpower, consultancy and so on. This will ensure that anything this Government will do in the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of medical Services or the Ministry in charge of Gender will be in line with plans. I think your brother, whom you say is a very good friend of yours, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, should learn from where Tom Mboya left off; coherence between finance and planning is what will make this country develop. Vision 2030 can be achieved next year if we work together as one. Thank you."
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