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    "id": 1216794,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": "I now wish to go to specifics: as we consider this Supplementary Estimate Budget, we are considering an animal called Article 223 of the Constitution which permits the National Treasury to expend money to a tune of 10 per cent and afterwards regularise by bringing those expenditures to Parliament. What we have noted as the Budget and Appropriations Committee, and I am sure the other Departmental Committees too are aware, is that we need more stringent regulations around Article 223 of the Constitution because its issues are unforeseen. The spirit of Article 223 of the Constitution is about expenditures on issues that are unforeseen and are not budgeted for. The same Article disqualifies new projects, but what we have seen in the past is blatant abuse of the Article. We have recommended to this House that we tighten regulations under Article 223 of the Constitution so that it only applies during rainy days."
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