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"content": "that proposal quite unworkable because for the rest of East Africa, the Ministers responsible for Finance would be presenting budgets before the people’s representatives in their Parliaments. It is you, Members, who then reorganised the Standing Orders quickly. I must thank the Members of the House for coming up with that proposal, and for the House to have accepted. You then provided and requested that every year, I make provision for the Cabinet Secretary, because he cannot step on the hallowed Floor of the House being an unelected official. Hon. Shamalla, he cannot purport to step where you are stepping on because you said that they are going to adulterate the hallowed Floor of the House. You directed that I prepare some space up here; some corner where he will come and patch himself with the staff, but then we give him an opportunity to be heard. That was the improvement that we had to do. Therefore, he can only come and make some proposals and then hand over the documents to the Office of the Clerk for distribution to the various departmental committees, which has already been done. The committees are, therefore, at liberty to go and comb through the various proposals so that when you sit with the Budget and Appropriations Committee, you should agree or disagree. You are not bound by those proposals; no one is. As it is, they would still be proposals from a stranger. You are then at liberty, because the proposals act as guides. So, when you sit at the various departmental committees and you interrogate those proposals alongside other functions in the various ministries and departments, you can then present something that is well thought out before the Budget and Appropriations Committee, you can also agree on what it is that should go to each ministry, program and activity through the various Votes, items and sub items, as the case maybe. On the first point, it was okay for the Cabinet Secretary to come and make the proposals. It may be inappropriate for them to purport to allocate or appropriate, but we forgive them for using those words. You have seen, in the recent past, people purporting and arrogating at themselves the power to make provisions having the force of law, in clear violation of Article 94. Hon. Members, so we just read that with one of those things that people get excited about. On the second point, Hon. Kimunya and as the Leader of the Majority Party, Hon. Gladwell Cheruiyot Tung’o made a commitment on the Floor that she would be ready today, Tuesday 12th April, 2022. In fact, nobody coerced her, but she is the one who offered that she would avail herself, and that is the problem. Hon. Members, I keep saying that when you make a commitment, is only fair that you honour it. Maybe Hon. Kimunya could respond to that."
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