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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mutunga",
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        "legal_name": "John Kanyuithia Mutunga",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to speak to this very important Report. I support the adoption of the Report. The Report highlights key issues that affect our country, our economy and the way we do business. I will raise a few issues that are disturbing. First and foremost, is our budgeting process. As a House, we consider ourselves to be making the budget. I believe this is allocation of resources to various needs or utilisation centres. What we do in this House most of the time is to allocate what we do not have. If we have pending bills to the tune of 178 per cent of the revenue that we collect, are we genuine in saying that we allocate resources? The first thing we should think about doing is paying those debts. There is this statement that has become a cliché in every budgeting process that every time we say that pending bills are a first charge of whatever money we allocate. If pending bills are a first charge, why are they not cleared? Coming back to the role of different oversight committees and in view of the Report and alluding to what Hon. Duale pointed out that there are some State departments and institutions whose reports could not even be qualified - he cited about 14 of them - it is worrying that there are institutions whose reports do not fit within the category that would give them some credence in terms of available options. If there are such institutions which have been listed in the Report, what measures should we take as a House? My suggestion is that we need to go in depth in evaluating 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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