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    "id": 1003107,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, this matter is very clear, both in the Constitution and in the PFM Act. Once this House passes a supplementary or the main Estimates and the Appropriations Bill is passed and warrants are presented to His Excellency the President, which we always witness, that matter settles there and the money goes to the respective units, even if it is the smallest village. And nobody can change that. Even the CS for the National Treasury cannot change that unless through Supplementary Estimates. So this is a very serious matter. This was in a Supplementary Estimates, which means this money must be spent before the end of this financial year. It was because Parliament felt the need to allocate the funds. For example, Mandera was given some money because the numbers in Mandera were very high compared to the other counties in the north. Kitui was given money for a specific reason. The money must now be with the Ministry of Health. The onus is on both the Committee on Implementation and the Departmental Committee on Health to give a very good report, as you directed, on Thursday. If you read Article 221(6) of the Constitution, the President signs an Appropriations Bill into an Act and he signs warrants, with specific projects. It is high time the two Committees asked what is going on. In fact, on Thursday they should tell us the money has been disbursed to these institutions, because we passed a resolution and the money is there. Parliament that you head, as the Chair of the PSC, was magnanimous to help the Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Hospital and all the other hospitals."
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