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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "South Imenti, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kathuri Murungi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I also want to thank the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee for being honest with what is happening in the National Treasury. This morning, in all the newspapers, the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury has told us to brace ourselves for tough times in this country. He is telling us to brace for tough times, yet he is also spending a lot of money even before the Committee approves that expenditure, therefore, he is misadvising us. He is the one making us suffer. You cannot spend all those billions without approval and then you come to cry to the citizens. How do we help? Hon. Chairman and your Committee, please rein in on those people. As we speak, even staff of Members of this House have only been paid for two months. They are going for the Christmas and New Year festivities with no money. The National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) itself has not disbursed any money to the constituencies. Some constituencies still have pending money from the last financial year. In audit reports, the Auditor-General declares that those citizens have not gotten value for their money. Once money is appropriated in the Budget, like what we do in the NG-CDF, and then the financial year ends without the projects being implemented, the Auditor-General terms this as citizens did not get value for their money. We are very much afraid of the National Treasury. The 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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