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    "id": 1354423,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Makali Mulu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Chairlady. I thank the Chairperson for this amendment. I want to go on record that despite the fact that we are moving amounts of money from one Vote to another, some amounts seem to be too huge to be amended at this level. For example, in (c), we are deleting Ksh4,506,077,429 and substituting it with Kshs29,306,077,429. I wanted to raise this matter when we were debating the Bill but I did not get a chance. We have to be very careful as a House. I am a budget expert. We are being taken for granted as a House and found to be ill-prepared for oversight because of programme budgeting. This House is not being given a chance to review the itemised budget because of that shift and we end up being unprepared. The Controller of Budget recently said that we budgeted for our salaries thrice and approved the allocation as a House. I am a Member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, but some of these sums are too huge to be passed at this level. I thought that the sums should first go to the Committee for debate, otherwise, we will, again, be caught unawares as a House if these figures go out to the public and we are asked what we are doing as a budget-making House. I have no problem with the amendment but I think these sums of money are too huge for that change."
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