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    "id": 105465,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/105465/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Shakeel",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the role of the Ministries is to come up with strategies and strategic plans. There is no doubt about it that we have begun to see the Ministry of Finance as the whole and soul. For example, if a hon. Member wants computers and requests the Ministry of Finance. That is not their job. That is the job of the Ministry of Information and Communications. Have they put it in their Budget? Is it one of their priorities? They are the specialists. When we talk about the IT buses that were brought, it was a joke beyond a joke that an IT bus would cost Kshs5 million out Kshs7 million that had been allocated for computers. So, the computers only cost Kshs2 million while the bus cost Kshs5 million. When you look at the whole issue, it was done by the Ministry of Finance who are not specialists. The Ministry of Information and Communications must have known what we were trying to do. They were taking computers to schools. The Ministry of Works should not have gone to determine what type of vehicle to buy. Those are the sort of disconnects in this country. I commend the Budget Committee. It is the Budget Committee now which should try and bring these people together. They should bring some reason where there is team work and not a one-man-show or a two-man-show. The Ministries must all set their priorities and strategies and not in May or July, because they might miss out. They should do it at around February before the year ends. They should have a five-year plan. What is happening and who is harmonizing? If the Ministry of Education comes up at the last minute and makes political demands that the salaries of lecturers of Kshs1 billion be paid immediately, the question asked rightly by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance is: âWhat am I expected to do because I had not put it in our Budget?â It was not there because the Ministry of Education did not budget for it. So, the mistake is with the Ministry of Education. When you go to the Minister for Finance and you use political arm-twisting to demand for some service, he has to take it from somewhere else. That is where it becomes a problem. Then everybody decides that that is the way. That is the matatu way. Get into the way and break the rules as long as you get what you want. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have to get a way out of this. It is a disaster to hear that the Ministry of the Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands was not even factored in the Budget. Where is the mistake? Is it with the Ministry of the Development of Northern Kenya and other Arid Lands or the Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 because they did not realize that they have 40 Ministries and one of them is the Ministry of the Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands? It is a disaster! The issues that we are looking at are very intricate. What we are saying as hon. Members under the new Standing Orders, the Ministries are responsible to the Committees and are meant to convince the Committee and give them an inkling of what is happening and get an understanding of how they are going to proceed during the coming year. That is where the Budget Committee must put its foot down and mobilize Parliament to ensure that the Supplementary Budgets, re-allocations and things like that follow the normal process. First, the Ministry which is asking for the money should explain why it was not in their budget in the first place and what element of their budget they are going to sacrifice to cover for something that was not planned for. That means exceptions; it is not every time â if they have done it once, perhaps, the second time, you say no! I actually laud it. Now, even from a hindsight, the former President Moi said very clearly when it came to a salary increases for teachers â hakuna pesa; there is no money! So, where am I going to get it from? There is no money! This is the sort of thing that I think the Ministry of Finance must come up and say, even if they have been pressurized, that there is no money. They should know that if you did not plan for it, there is nothing."
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