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"speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. For the benefit of those who missed induction at the beginning of this term, and also to refresh our minds, budget estimates are tabled before the end of April. Therefore, after we come back from recess, I shall table the budget estimates before the end of April. These big books are table in the House. Thereafter, you can access them from either the Table Office or Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO). If you want to check whether any program or project you expected to be budgeted for in your constituency, you can ask someone in the PBO to help you drill down the numbers and see if it is there. At the time, when we are passing the Budget, it is good for Members to come. Many times, budget estimates and even the Appropriations Bill is usually passed by about 50 or 60 Members out of 349 Members. Then you start complaining about things you passed in Budget. As I said, it is important for Members to avail themselves at this time, to scrutinise the numbers with a toothcomb, and be wary of budgeted corruption issues. This was spoken to by none other than His Excellency the President, this morning. So, I thought it was important as we move to the budget making process, we appraise ourselves with what is going on."
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"content": " Hon. Omboko I want us to leave this. Do you want to say something beyond what the Leader of the Majority Party has said? For one minute only, because we have so many statements."
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"speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am very glad that the Leader of the Majority Party has spoken about budgeted corruption. Hon. Members, as we make the budget, we need to be careful. For a few days, I have been wondering what happened to the Ministry of Energy, only to realise that my constituency got only one electricity project. Yet, when you look at the budget, other people got between 14 and 17 projects. Hon. Members, as we sit here, we cannot afford to completely drain the efforts of other Members. To an extent, that you can have so much while another Member has nothing and they have no chance of representing their constituents very well. This is also happening in the 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": "Ministry of Roads and Transport and the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development. As Chairpersons make the budget, they must be fair to other Members. Where has sanity gone? For instance, the Ministry of Energy should give an equal share of transformers to every Member of Parliament for his constituency. Who will die because of this? Must you have too much while others have nothing? The same applies to roads. So, as we deal with the upcoming budget these are some of the things, we should consider. I support what the President said, that there is budgeted corruption. We should handle this carefully and call to order those in charge of making the budget when it comes here. In terms of resources distribution, we need to know how much goes to each constituency. That is what I wanted to raise. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I am not a happy Legislator this afternoon."
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"content": " Why are Hon. Members seeking interventions as if we are debating a statement? What is the interest in the matter? I will allow Hon. Kangogo to be the last one to speak on this? We do not debate statements. Yes, Hon. Kangogo Bowen. Proceed."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Kangogo Bowen",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to agree with what the Leader of the Majority Party, Hon. Ichung’wah, has said. That Chairpersons of Committees like me - I am the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Blue Economy and Irrigation, as we budget we should engage ministries, oversight and work within ceilings. After we are done in our Committees, we present our budget estimates to the Budget and Appropriations Committees, who present them to the National Treasury. As the Leader of the Majority Party said, many times, we pass the budget when there are five Members on the other side and 10 on this other side. We do not interrogate it including some Committee Members. For example, a Member of my Committee can deny our budget on the Floor of theHouse. This is because he was not keen when it was being presented. I want to request Hon. Members to be keen. Chairs of Departmental Committees should own their budget. So, when it is altered by the National Treasury or the Budget and Appropriations Committee, they can deny it on the Floor of the House. So, that Budget and Appropriations Committee or the National Treasury does not mutilate their budget. We should be allowed to move amendments on the Floor of the House, to agree or reject them. Sometimes, when you raise an amendment, you are told to first agree with the Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations, who might refuse and it is thrown away. I want all of us not to just sit here and say Aye or Nay. Yet, we do not know why we are saying so."
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"content": " Lastly, Hon. Danson Mwashako, Member for Wundanyi."
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"speaker_name": "Wundanyi, WDM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Danson Mwashako",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker…"
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"content": " Are you in the Budget and Appropriations Committee?"
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