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    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
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    "content": " Thank you very much Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support the Supplementary Budget but also to say that the Supplementary Appropriation III Budget is unprecedented. It is historical. When you see a Government move from Supplementary Budget I to III, then there is one thing...I think the new Leader of the Majority Party will agree with me that we have a problem of efficiency within the system. When you have inefficiency, it means, therefore, you have a Supplementary Budget III because money was not spent and, therefore, it must be spent within a short time. We would have comfortably taken this money into the new Budget and moved on. Having said that, I would also like to say that we have a project there for energy. The Ministry of Energy is one of the most inefficient ministries. I would like to say that the rural electrification programme has been budgeted for many years. Since I came to Parliament, some of the programmes have not been completed yet today, we want to give them more money for whatever they want to do. They might not spend that money. They might have to come back here. Therefore, I think the Leader of Majority Party needs to inform the department that they need to be more efficient in doing that. Secondly, Hon. Deputy Speaker, COVID-19 is a global disruption. In this country, many things could be disrupted including budgets because of COVID-19. We need to have preparedness so that in future, as we spend money in this budget that starts today or tomorrow, we will not be caged again by COVID-19 to come back and say that we are doing another supplementary budget because of COVID-19. We need to have all systems go in such a way that procurement and implementation of projects are not stalled because of COVID-19. The team that has been put in place by the President to advise him on how to handle COVID-19 needs to move to top gear, so that we are ahead of the disease. Right now, we are behind the disease. The disease is ahead of us. Moreover, if a country moves that way, then the economy of that country is more likely to be affected. A lot of money is being spent on COVID-19, and I can see the Ministry of Health’s budget of almost Kshs2 billion is coming back into the supplementary budget. Why? This is because they are behind the disease. They need to work hard to be ahead of the disease, so that they can plan and spend the money without having to come back for a supplementary budget. For the Ministry of Education, I can see many conflicting statements from the Cabinet Secretary. This means his lack of preparedness. He says that we might open schools in September, and then he says that we might not open at all. He says we might open in January next year. It therefore, means he is delaying in decision-making. If decision-making is delayed, we will come back and say: \"You know, we want a supplementary budget\". Why? Because we are not ready to 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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