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    "id": 1082986,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I stand to support the Supplementary Appropriation (No.2) Bill. Let me go on record. Hon. Amos Kimunya was once the Minister for Finance in the 10th Parliament. Hon. Mbadi will agree with me that there is no Minister for Finance that brought a Supplementary Appropriation Bill to the National Assembly two days to the end of the financial year. It has never happened. It is illegal. Read the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act. Why is it illegal? It beats and undermines the credibility of the budget process. It leads to low absorption. If you give money today, how do you expect the accounting officer to spend that money in two days? This kind of Supplementary Appropriations Bill creates a loophole for misappropriation of funds by technocrats who work in Government. If you read all the Supplementary Appropriation Bills that come at the tail-end of the financial year, that is where you will find all the theft. Hon. Mbadi will agree with me because he was in the Budget and Appropriations Committee. It is during consideration of a Supplementary Appropriations Bill where we rejected to pay the Ruaraka land deals. The House refused. It is in this kind of Supplementary Appropriations Bill where the Cabinet Secretary uses Article 223 to pay huge sums of money outside the powers given to him and then he comes to sanitise the payments. Let me say two things. First, I have seen that Kshs7.6 billion has been allocated to the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines. That translates to US$10 per vaccine. That will provide vaccines 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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