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    "id": 135566,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/135566/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Okemo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 198,
        "legal_name": "Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to start by really congratulating the Minister for being the first Minister since we started discussing Estimates to come and give us an account of how his Budget was utilized in the previous financial year. He also demonstrated to us that the money that he is being allocated will actually be utilized. If you look at the statistics he has given us to indicate the absorption capacity that is the ability of the Ministry to spend the money that is given to them; these are very impressive figures. He talked of about 98 per cent for Recurrent and about 85 per cent for Development. That means the Ministry is serious and focused. I think they are able to utilise the funds that are allocated to them. We spent very useful moment with the Minister and his technical team. We want through the entire Budget. I will not go into the details of figures, but there are a few issues that I would like to raise for the attention of the House. The first one is to recognise the fact that the Ministry of Planning, National Development and Vision 2030 is one of the key Ministries in the Government of Kenya. It should be treated as such. In any Government, I rightly agree with Dr. Mwiria, if you do not have proper plans, if these plans are not properly conceptualized, prepared and implemented, then anything to do with economic development is a pipe dream. Therefore, to enable this Ministry to prepare proper plans which can be relied upon by the Government to implement development policies, then they must be adequately funded. It is very worrying to see for example that Vision 2030, that the Ministry requested for Kshs750 million and received only Kshs129 million. Surely, could the Government be serious about Vision 2030? How will the Vision 2030 Commission implement Vision 2030 if it has been allocated less than 20 per cent? It is a very insignificant amount of money that has been provided for. I think the Ministry"
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