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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the Fiscal Management Bill, it is very clear that Supplementary Estimates will consist of supplements. We are going to supplement where we did not have and not introduce new items. If you go further to page 276, there is the same story. The Ministry of Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands was never considered, but it is now coming in the Supplementary Estimates. What does that, therefore, mean especially for the projects whose money was withheld earlier in the year because of lack of funding? I did ask a Question in this House about a market called Kimumo in Eldoret East, where an allocation of Kshs52 million had been given and then the same money was retrieved because the Minister said that he did not have money. It does not even appear here. That to me means that we are not planning anything, and not very clear on what we want to do. We are doing things at random, because if you budget for something in one financial year and do not implement it and you reverse it, and then when it comes to the Supplementary Budget, you are actually introducing new items, it means that you are actually breaking the Fiscal Management Bill outrightly. I think we need to raise these issues, so that the Ministry can go and rethink the way they are going to do things. We will allow it this time, especially for the sake of the Ministry of Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands. I will support the Supplementary Estimates, so that we do not deny them support, since they were not given much in the Budget itself. But what was the idea behind the budgeting that was brought before this House, when we debated the Budget and actually complained bitterly that this Ministry was being underfunded? How do we set our priorities? We ignore them and come back and reintroduce them? That is not prudent financial management. It means that we are not actually dealing with our issues as per any plan."
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