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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I could say the same thing about the Development Expenditure. Why is it that we have some departments, like the State House, which have been allocated zero in terms of Development Expenditure on the Vote on Account? Why is it that the Ministry of East African Community has also been allocated zero per cent, yet it presented its budget and development plan? Treasury is not giving money to the Ministries the way it is supposed to. Why is it that some Ministries are being given everything they want and yet, the others are not being given what they requested and we passed in this House? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a reprimand from this House. We want to see a better managed budget. This House is not joking. With the passage of the Fiscal Management Act, so far, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance has co-operated, but we expect more. We want the Budget to be managed properly. If we say that 50 per cent of each vote in each Ministry is going to be spent, then let us see that being done. Otherwise, we will be engaging in a futile exercise. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other issue that I would like to raise is the compliance report under the Fiscal Management Act. We expected that the Minister will be bringing those compliance reports so that he can show us that this is the budget that we passed and this is how they are complying with the wishes of Kenyans through this Parliament. This has not been done and we want the Minister to adhere so that we can see that, truly, he is doing what is supposed to be done. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we want to state it, from the Floor of this House, that we expect the Budget to be followed in the manner that we agreed when the Minister made his proposals and we passed them. We want those days of roadside declarations to be gone and never to come back. We are very worried – and I have to state it from the Floor of this House again - about where money is being found, for example, to take the Cabinet to the Coast. Where do we account for that money? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am sure that when Mr. Waweru was raising these funds, he was not having in his pocket some money or small change where Ministers and Assistant Ministers could have a good time in Mombasa. The same could be achieved right here in Nairobi. Since the Ninth Parliament started, with the same President, and I served in that Government, we have never had to go outside to spend money in the manner it was been spent in this last Cabinet retreat. We expect the Minister to follow what we agreed we are going to do in this House. We want this time round things to be done properly. We are worried when we hear the Prime Minister saying that he is going to undertake a pilot project, to give money to urban dwellers in the informal sector settlement. Again, I do not remember at any one time when this Parliament passed this kind of money. If you are going to give money to people in informal settlements in Nairobi, what about Mombasa and Malindi? Why are we being left behind? Why is this pilot project being done in Nairobi alone and, did we pass that money in Parliament?"
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