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    "content": "Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to speak on the Report by the Budget and Appropriations Committee. At the outset, I wish to congratulate them for a job well done in going through the Estimates that were presented by the National Treasury. In the same breath, I have noted a few concerns that I would like to raise. The issue of pending bills has been brought about by Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah, the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, and there are questions that beg answers. How is it that we end up having pending bills, when we have laws that are supposed to safeguard us from getting into such situations? If the accounting officers were in charge and followed the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA) 2012 and Public Procurement and Disposal Act of 2015, we should not be having pending bills. This is because the ministries, departments and parastatals are under the Government of Kenya, and they should be spending money within the budget and the money that has been allocated there-in. I have also noted that His Excellency the President has been talking about universal supply of electricity. I happen to have gone through the allocation for the Ministry of Energy and I could not see any increase in the allocation in that Ministry so that we can achieve and actualise it in terms of rural electrification and maximisation."
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