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    "id": 1006644,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. As I second this Motion, I want to repeat that our concerns were expressed last week. We talked about issues that we felt that the Treasury is not doing right. However, the reason we decided to approve this Supplementary Budget and even agree to the Supplementary Appropriation Bill for the same is that we do not want our financial statements at the end of the financial year to have excess votes in our books. Definitely, if you have spent money and Parliament has not approved it, the net effect of that is that when the Auditor-General comes to audit the books of the financial statements of the Republic of Kenya, there will be certain votes that would have been overspent based on the budgetary provisions. We agreed to the request by the Ministry of Health to reallocate Ksh2 billion. Initially, they wanted to take the Ksh3 billion from the ring-fenced funds for specific hospitals, but we rejected that. What the Ministry of Health has done… The Executive needs to be careful and serious in its budgetary process and implementation because the moment we rejected the reallocation of the ring-fenced funds, what the Ministry of Health did was to quickly look for Ksh2 billion which they easily found within their sector. It was curious because this money was coming from salaries. When we asked how come the salaries can release Ksh2 billion because salary is so fixed, so direct and you can determine it so easily, we got an explanation which was making sense because the Ministry wanted to recruit a number of personnel. At the beginning of the year, there were so many adverts for various positions under the Ministry of Health and the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), which is factual. This recruitment has not been done, so that money became available. 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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