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    "id": 1216842,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1216842/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "billion plus – almost a trillion shillings – while pending bills are to the tune Ksh150 billion shillings. That is expected. Under the Public Finance Management Act of 2012 and the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act of 2015 – and this must be understood clearly by Members – once this House passes an Appropriation Bill, it is assented to and it becomes an Appropriations Act. The spending entities have a leeway to commence procurement. That is whether they are MDAs and what have you. They do not have to wait for Exchequer releases. Hon. Mbadi is here, and he can educate us on this. That is what occasions these ballooning commitments and pending bills. How do you cure it? In my view, the only way to cure it is to develop a realistic budget - a budget that you know how it is going to be financed. There are no two ways about it. It is not rocket science. Unless we deal with that, we shall continue to be dealing with these supplementary budgets year in, year out. In fact, there are occasions when we have had to deal with Supplementary Budget No.3 in this House. That is my first point. My second point is on the now infamous or famous Article 223 of the Constitution. I have looked at the recommendations of the Committee that we need to relook at this Article and fine-tune the rules. That could as well be true. I must thank the Chairman of the Committee for his eloquence and grasp of the issues."
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