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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Emuhaya, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Omboko Milemba",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Now that you have put a question on that Motion, I will have less time to speak to this. Let me begin by thanking you and the Hon. Members. This Budget season, we have seen a lot of very high-quality debate in the House. I thank the Members for that. Supplementary Budget II is a way of cleaning up monies that were not used within a financial year and reallocating them within the law and the Constitution as required by the Public Finance Management Act and the laws that govern the budget processes. I laud the Budget and Appropriation Committee Chairperson for doing good work and explaining what those monies are all about. One, it is true that budgets are estimates and, therefore, they cannot be exact. As a result, at the end of each financial year, we have these appropriations to mop up the other funds. I am specific about the A-in-A monies, which most of the MDAs do not fully disclose. Corruption begins here. MDAs do not declare the full amounts they can absorb for a long time. They wait until the Government has given them funds throughout the year to declare the A-in-A so that they can spend them. You will notice that there are many workshops and easy spending for all the MDAs between now and the end of the month. This needs to be fixed. Parliament has to control this so that we give the correct estimates for what is collected by MDAs as A-in-A. Two projects co-funded with foreign aid have been punished. Currently, we have approximately Ksh700 billion borrowed from foreigners, which is attached to support by the Exchequer. We have not given our part of the deal. Therefore, we are being surcharged for not absorbing those loans while, at the same time, we are not using the loans. We have money out there that the Government committed to giving to but has yet to. The Budget and Appropriation Committee must take care of this. They should identify those ministries that cannot absorb their monies even after we have already signed the deals for the loans or for the foreigners to give us a part of their bargain. If anything, some of them are dangerously done for kickbacks and so, getting the loan earlier than the time we are ready to spend."
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