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    "id": 1078762,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1078762/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Uriri, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mark Nyamita",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13500,
        "legal_name": "Mark Ogolla Nyamita",
        "slug": "mark-ogolla-nyamita"
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    "content": " This Budget has been done within the context of COVID-19. We are currently in the third wave and are almost moving into the fourth. We must ask ourselves if it will be the last. If we get into a fifth or sixth wave, even if we have budgeted for them, they will disrupt our budgeting process. We need to ask ourselves as a country if we will be able to sustain ourselves within the tight fiscal framework that we are in. You will also note that the IMF is already within. It has come in with its conditions on revenue, expenditure and restructuring. As we oversee the Executive, we need to be aware of the new conditions that will happen. Public participation has not been very effective due to the pandemic. During the last three years we had been going round the country, we had done about 12 counties every year. We would ask all the members of that county to come to one city. That has not been possible over the last two years for obvious reasons. We have relied on written submissions. Because of the challenges of education and the different literacy levels, providing written submissions becomes a bit of a problem. One of the biggest things which I have alluded to is the issue of pending bills. Without provision for pending bills and our tendency to continue abandoning ongoing projects while providing for new projects, we are not helping the common man. In as much as we say that pending bills will be a first charge, we have done programme budgeting and there is a budget for every single project. If you have not factored in pending bills, there is a problem. Even within the overall framework that we are talking about, pending bills also qualify as debt because it is debt that is taken from local suppliers. It needs to be captured. The National Treasury needs to develop a framework. We asked them to provide us with the total amount of pending bills but they only gave us the figures in the mainstream ministries. It was totaling to about..."
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