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    "id": 998515,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Rachael Nyamai",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13374,
        "legal_name": "Richard Ken Chonga Kiti",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Motion. First of all, let me take this opportunity to thank the members of the Departmental Committee on Lands for the support that they have given me and also for taking time to ensure that they participate in the budget-making process from the Budget Policy Statement up to the Estimates. I would like to say that we have worked on this Budget and made a presentation to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I would like to say that the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning and the National Land Commission (NLC) are generally under-funded. I would like to give an example of the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning which is involved in many activities that are geared towards supporting the Big Four Agenda. I would like to state that this Ministry receives Kshs6.1 billion. I say that cognizant of the fact that the Ministry should be able to argue for themselves within the sectoral meetings, but it is important that the House knows that this Ministry only receives Kshs6.1 billion. This Ministry also has the capacity to raise revenue to this Government and, currently, they are already past Kshs11 billion. I would like to bring this to the attention of the House and say that this is a Ministry that needs to be supported based on the fact that it is a revenue-generating Ministry and it has many programmes that would like to be supported. The NLC receives Kshs1.3 billion. We have been scrutinizing this budget with the parliamentary committee and as we support the current budget, we would like to say that we have advised the NLC that it needs to look at its programmes and also make a decision on exactly where they would like to start and where they would like to finish. This is because the NLC receives Kshs1.2 billion. When I was defending it in the Budget and Appropriations Committee, I stated that this is a parastatal that is spending over 80 per cent of their money on personnel emoluments, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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