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    "id": 1264185,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Mohammed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I stand to oppose these Regulations. We are becoming a country that is going to be run through special funds. For every small thing we want to do in this country, we want to create a fund for it. It is very dangerous to govern a country through subsidiary legislations. Peacekeeping missions did not start in this country yesterday. They did not start with Somalia or Sudan. They have been there since Independence. This country is actually known for peacekeeping missions. Our soldiers have done very well and have developed countries that were in turmoil and brought them back to peace. When you see people handling funds the way we are now doing it here, there is always a fishy element in it. There are people who are targeting that money in a certain way. We have been here for some time and we know. We appropriate over Ksh400 billion every financial year to the Ministry of Defence. They have been using that money very well and it is audited. It goes through the auditing system and through the Public Accounts Committee system. They have been presenting their documents in Parliament and all the time they have been given a clean bill of health. Why create a special fund? Why do we create a fund if the people who are managing those funds have been doing well for the past five years? When we create a fund like the NG-CDF and NGAAF it is understandable because those are special situations and circumstances that require direct intervention at the grassroots level. What are we intervening here? If you are given new equipment that you need to use, you can take them to the barracks and the military will handle them. If we get funding, let us put it in the Consolidated Fund and appropriate it directly to the Ministry of Defence. At the Defence level, their accountants can use it as per their requirements. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I urge the House to desist from this urge from the Executive to create special funds all the time for special purposes. One time, these special vehicles are going to hang this country and you will remember my statement in this House. These are separate entities derived from the State Department so that they can be operated separately under supervision of certain people. It is my humble request that we allow the Ministry of Defence to operate as they have been for the longest time. We have never seen any peculiar audit query, serious misappropriation of funds or any wrongdoings in their accounting books. Why then should we go this way? Let us not become a country that operates through special funds; that every small thing we want to do we create a special fund. With those few remarks, I oppose."
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