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    "id": 1081381,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the Second Supplementary Estimates for the Financial Year 2020/2021. I want to look at these Supplementary Estimates from two angles; from the financial movements within the votes and the policy and financial recommendations that the Committee has put in place. The overall reduction in the Recurrent of Kshs17.94 billion is a good thing as per the Report of the Committee analysing the various vote heads that have been affected, especially looking at the vote head on education, and a reduction from the Nairobi Metropolitan Services of about Kshs1.8 billion. This in itself is on the basis that there was low absorption by State departments. What is happening on the Supplementary Estimates that are coming before us is that they are coming at the tail-end of the financial year to correct the absorption rate or to correct what has not been collected in terms of A-in-A. In essence, therefore, following the pandemic situation which has put our country in a difficult place, most parastatals and State agencies were not able to collect enough money as projected in the main Budget, thereby, leaving a gap which we must collect in terms of aligning the Budget that we drew with the final figures. On the other hand, the increment in Recurrent Expenditure of Kshs1.6 billion towards exploration and distribution of oil and gas is a worthy investment in terms of pushing what we can get from exploration of oil and gas. Let the Ministry of Petroleum and Mining undertake to push. We hope to see a good product out of its efforts. The TSC has been allocated Kshs1.5 billion in this Supplementary Budget for teacher management. We want to see more teachers employed. We want our youthful teachers who have just trained to be absorbed, however few. Let us push that they get absorbed in the system so that our youthful manpower is put to use. There is an allocation of Kshs1.46 billion towards wildlife conservation and management programme under the State Department of Wildlife. This is one of the key departments which have a lot of issues. Most Members from the Coast have raised issues in terms of how the Tsavo wildlife has affected their people. Part of this money should support the welfare of the neighbourhood populations in terms of co-existence between wildlife and the people. Finally, there is Kshs1 billion for State House Affairs Programme in the Executive Office of the President. Without the head of a house, we cannot move. We want to support the Executive so that it can move the country forward. Before I wind up, we have to ask the National Treasury not to give us a report on the last day. We want to ask it to consider submitting the Second Supplementary Estimates at least a month or one-and-a-half months to the end of the financial year, so that we have time to interrogate what it wants to do with the funds, and for it to have time to disburse the funds without rushing. I support the report of the Committee. Thank you. 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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