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    "id": 101096,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. With that assurance, I proceed. We want to be preventive and not curative. We want to handle things before they happen. Before this explanation of Kshs59 billion is given, we cannot approve 50 percent. We need to be cautious because in accounts, there is a law we call prudence. We have to be prudent and give only the bare minimum we could. Actually, we have been very generous to give you a quarter of the expenditure. So, Mr. Minister, please, be comfortable with our 25 percent but next time, we plead with you, that when you are presenting the Vote on Account, please, give us a detailed analysis on each and every line item, how much you anticipate to spend in two months, some could be more, some could be less. This is why when the Minister presented quarterly reports to us, you find some Ministries having spent a 100 percent and you still have half a year remaining and some have spent 10 percent. It is because there is no discipline in expenditure and this House is contributing to this by just generously giving money to the Minister, as and when he wants. This time round, I plead with this House that we condition this Ministry to start thinking and behaving the way and in the spirit of the Fiscal Management Act. If we do not do that, then this Act will be in vain. I do not want the law that we passed in this House to be in vain. My parting shot, as I conclude, is that the Minister should reconsider and support our proposal to amend. We are not saying that we will not give you money; we are giving you one month more than you need because we are giving you three months equivalent of expenditure. So I am confident that the Government is going to run effectively and efficiently with three months equivalent of expenditure. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to allay some fears. There is a difference between budget approval and cash disbursement. This is totally different. Actually this money we approve, we may not even get it until November. Most of these expenditures, even the CDF that they talked about, will come in October or November. So, why should we tie up cash flow with the appropriations?"
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