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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support the appropriations. I support this Motion on the Supplementary Estimates. Allow me to highlight the following issues. The first one is that it is very difficult to make a budget when it is glaring that the revenue outside is not meeting the targets. As we went through this process, we realised that one of the challenges that this country is going to face moving forward, is the fact that KRA is not meeting the targets as defined by this House. This is happening despite this House going through the last Finance Act, and now, we have the current Finance Bill which we are going through, which has outlined various tax measures which propose to realise more revenues at the end. The reason this Supplementary Estimates are before us is because of a failure to meet a target of about Ksh250 billion of projected revenues. This is the reality of the matter and this House needs to be aware that even if we have those ambitious projects which we want to achieve, as a country, we will never achieve them if we do not meet the revenue targets. The second point I wanted to make is the question of increasing recurrent expenditure and reducing development expenditure. All the Supplementary Budgets that I have gone through, and which I have seen since I became a Member of this House, always target to reduce development expenditure at the same time increasing recurrent expenditure. Tied to that is the question of the Exchequer. You are aware that even as we went through this Supplementary Estimates, we realised that there was no development expenditure since the start of this Financial Year because of the Exchequer. If you look at the budget implementation, you will realise that the economy will not be able to perform as projected because we tend to implement development expenditure at the tail end of the year."
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