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    "id": 1077125,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Francis Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this debate. This is the second last Budget of the 12th Parliament. As we debate about the Kshs3.03 trillion Budget, out of which Kshs1.29 trillion is on recurrent, there are several fundamental questions that we must ask ourselves as a Parliament and as a country. The President gave a directive on this elephant called pending bills. One of the reasons why we are opposed to Government doing domestic borrowing is because that domestic borrowing crowds out other borrowers that may want to borrow from the commercial banks to grow SMEs and personal businesses. The same Government that is trusted and someone knows if they give it money in terms of a treasury bonds or bills, they are sure they will get a return on it, is the same government that people are doing business for and getting years without being paid and are being auctioned. As a Member for the Budget and Appropriations Committee, we made it clear that the state departments and ministries must prioritize as per the PFM Act, making sure that all pending bills have been paid. Therefore, I would say, having done our part as a Committee of budget, we hope that the accounting offices will respect the law, our report, the PFM Act, the Constitution of Kenya 2010 and nobody should be auctioned because they did business for the Government. We have very many stalled projects in this country. The question begs: Why then do we have a planning department? Why then do we get to that point where money has been invested, someone has been on site and then the people who get bashed are MPs? If money is not sent on time in a project in my constituency like the Njoro - Molo Road, it is us that get to suffer the wrath of wananchi. My hope is that the existing projects, those projects that the Government has undertaken to do and has procured, that the accounting officers are going to be accountable enough, they are going to respect the rule of law and that projects will be completed and on time because, this will save the country money, it saves the country time and it is true use of value for money for the taxpayer."
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