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    "id": 998573,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
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        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": "move our country from what we are into possibly a brighter future. We have a budget for the Executive, Parliament and the Judiciary and we have allocated money towards Recurrent and Development Expenditure in the three arms of the Government. We are in extraordinary times where the COVID-19 pandemic will make us not achieve what we aim to achieve. However, we have to do the best that we can. We have set aside a lot of money for development. It is the wish of this House to see that all money allocated for development goes to development as envisaged. Rural areas usually suffer a lot from these budgets. I have been on this for the last three years. Unlike urban areas, rural areas are left behind. I speak for my constituency, Tharaka. In this budget, I am looking at electricity, which needs to be supplied in all areas, so that we can catch up with the rest of Kenya. I am looking at water, roads and titling of land. Let there be equality and equity in distribution of funds during the budget-making process so that all areas of Kenya attain development as is desired. Before I conclude, it is important to point out two matters. One, while this budget is going to be under the control of the National Treasury, let us not use it to muzzle the other arms of Government. We know for sure that the Judiciary has been crying for funds to implement its development agenda. I sit in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and most of the times, the Judiciary’s budgetary allocations are deducted during supplementary budgets and in other ways. Let all the money that has been allocated to an arm of Government go to that arm of Government, including what comes to us through the NG-CDF. The NG-CDF is the only way that equitable development can reach the countryside right into the grassroots. Finally, it is important to point out that we have an escalating debt. It is growing day by day and night by night. Unless our appetite for borrowing is arrested and we are able to control our debt ratio, we are likely to become mortgaged to our creditors. We risk our country being foreclosed, God forbid. With those remarks, I support the Motion. Thank you."
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