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"content": "However, I urge them to remember women because they play very important roles. So far, there is no lady who has been appointed from our side. Hopefully, we will still get the appointments. I have heard there are some pending positions. We will see whether Hon. Millie, Hon. Rozaah, Hon. Esther Passaris and I, will get a chance to serve in those ministries."
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"content": "I, thank, you. The new Members who are here have been shown the way – the Generation Z way. Let us fight for our rights and the opportunity to speak. We will not allow Hon. Members who are serving their third or fourth term to contribute many times as we sit here day-in, day-out to say just one word."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Fatuma. I will correct you. There is no cabinet secretary who has been appointed. They were nominated. This House will vet them, and finally they will be appointed by the President. I will give this chance to the Leader of the Majority Party."
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Motion on the consideration of the First Supplementary Estimates for the Financial Year 2024/2025. Let me exonerate myself because everything we say here is on record. Hon. Fatuma was referring to me, when she complained about new Members speaking. By now, she should have known that it is the Speaker or the person who is sitting on the Speaker’s Chair who decides who should speak, but not the Leader of the Minority Party or Leader of the Majority Party. I also wait to contribute. I have waited patiently to get this opportunity to contribute. The consideration of the First Supplementary Budget within the first month of the financial year is very unique. Indeed, it is the second such supplementary budget that I have seen since I joined this House over 10 years ago. The first one was in 2018 which was also occasioned by changes of the Finance Act of Financial Year 2018/2019. Those Members who were here like Hon. Millie Odhiambo can remember when we declined to approve the Value Added Tax (VAT) on fuel. This occasioned certain changes to the Appropriations Bill, occasioning the first such supplementary estimates, although that happened within the second to third month. This is the first time in the history of Parliament that we have seen a supplementary budget, even before we begin implementing the budget. It must not be lost on Kenyans that this was occasioned by the rejection of the Finance Bill, 2024. This occasioned a huge gap in our budget for this financial year. That is what has necessitated this supplementary budget this early in the financial year. 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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"content": "The rejection of the Finance Bill occasioned a deficit of an additional Ksh346 billion. This tells you that without this First Supplementary Budget, it means that the Government of Kenya goes out to borrow the entire Ksh346 billion. Hon. Members will note that this Supplementary Budget is only reducing our Budget by a total of about Ksh146.3 billion. Therefore, there is another gap or a fiscal deficit of an additional Ksh200 billion. Part of this will be covered through additional revenue raising measures and other austerity measures that will be carried on in the course of the financial year. It is important to say this so that Kenyans understand that every Finance Bill that consequently becomes the Finance Act comes to finance Government operations and the budgets for Kenyans. Many Members have lamented that various budgets have been cut. This will happen. The Member for Githunguri complained that the Coffee Cherry Advance Revolving Fund has lost Ksh1 billion. However, she failed to inform coffee farmers that they have an additional Ksh3 billion. They would have got an additional Ksh4 billion this financial year. Hon. Temporary Speaker, she rightly asked – and I do not know whether she was sarcastic - whether dairy farmers are more important than coffee farmers. All farmers in the Republic of Kenya are important. That is why dairy farmers in Githunguri, Kikuyu, Karachuonyo, Bungoma, Kanduyi, Kuresoi South and Kuresoi North will benefit from milk coolers. This is because it is a key promise that this administration promised dairy farmers. We will ensure that there is substantive value addition in the milk value chain. Therefore, within the last Budget that we had just approved, there was no money for milk coolers and driers for maize farmers. We have now made sure that resources are allocated to ensure that we secure the post-harvest losses from our maize farmers and dairy products by having coolers around our country in dairies in almost all our wards. I know we do not have adequate resources - courtesy of the rejection of the Finance Bill, 2024 - to roll out everything that ought to have been rolled out. This morning, I had an engagement with a young girl who keeps sending me messages. She is called Jane who is a student at Mount Kenya University (MKU). She complained that they have no access to university funding. I want to assure Jane and many other university students that the Budget and Appropriations Committee has made sure that under the Differentiated Unit Cost (DUC) and resources that have gone to the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB), no child or student in the university and TVET institutions will lack access to higher education on account of either capitation through DUC, getting loans, and sponsorships or scholarships through HELB. Those are some of the balances that we have done. This means that there will be a give and take within the Supplementary Budget. That is why there are many other areas that we have cut expenditure, part of which might have been critical, but can wait. The Budget is all about prioritising. We must prioritise so that we can ensure that even those who crusaded for the rejection of the Finance Bill 2024 will not suffer. They have opportunities that they will never access. A child who does not access university education today cannot wait for next year or the year after. However, a road in Kikuyu Constituency that was to be constructed in this financial year can wait. Therefore, I want to take this opportunity to ask and plead with Kenyans to be patient. Under these difficult economic times where we give and take, we cannot have our cake and eat it at the same time. If we do not have finances from the Finance Bill, 2024, then a road, dam or another project to be constructed or a hospital here will give way. This will come with the necessary or requisite responsible stewardship of the National Treasury. I believe that among the nominees who have been named today, God willing, if Hon. John Mbadi ends up being in the National Treasury, he has the requisite knowledge. He has sat in this House and he knows. He has been a Member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee when I chaired that Committee. I 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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"content": "am confident that we will roll out this Budget, and chew gum while scaling the stairs at the same time. We will cut on unnecessary expenditure and roll out critical development and other social programmes in education. That includes capitation to our day and boarding secondary schools, our JSS teachers and the JSS capitation. All those things must run concurrently even as difficult as things are after the rejection of the Finance Bill."
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"content": "Certain things in the Finance Bill that never became an Act would have helped this country also realise very many other developmental objectives. The tax amnesty, exemption on penalties, or the waiver provision, which was in the Finance Bill is an instance. With time, I am hoping that the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning will make considerations to see how we can rescue some of the very positive things that were demonised within the Finance Bill. They would have done very well for this economy. The tax amnesty waiver easily generates close to Ksh30 billion to Ksh40 billion. At the same time, it allows business people in this country an opportunity to save from penalties by KRA because of bills they have not paid. That is because the Government is holding their money under pending bills. I pray and hope that the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, and the National Treasury, are working towards ways of rescuing some of those good things."
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