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    "id": 1431429,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "We have seen in the past that supplementary budgets every year have been used by MDAs for a last-minute dash towards procurement. People hide their Appropriations-in-Aid and then move to ensure they are rushing to procure goods and services this last month of the financial year. From experience and those who have been here long enough, especially those who have served in the Public Accounts Committee and the Public Investments Committee, most corruption issues in the Government emanate from things done either towards the end of a financial year or in the run-up to a general election. That is where you will find most corruption cases in the Government and MDAs. I hope the new centralised system of accounting for Appropriations-in-Aid through the eCitizen platform will go a long way in ensuring we curb a vice that has bedeviled our country for long. In the interest of time, let me not say much more. Finally, again, I thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee, and all our chairmen together with the Members of this House who are serving in the Departmental Committee. I know it was not easy for many of them to leave their constituencies during recess to consider the Supplementary Budget together with the Annual Estimates. This morning, we moved procedural motions to allow us time to engage on this Supplementary Budget and the Division of Revenue Bill as mediated on. I know the County Allocation of Revenue Bill is also coming. There is also the Equalisation Fund Appropriation Report from the Senate and the Annual Estimates. We hope we will have finalised and finished to allow the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning to come and make his statement next week on Thursday, as was communicated by the Office of the Speaker yesterday afternoon. Moving forward and next financial year, once we are done with Annual Estimates, I request the National Treasury to let us minimise our Supplementary Budgets to at least one in a year."
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