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    "id": 1439471,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1439471/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui West, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Edith Nyenze",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to this Supplementary Budget. According to the Public Finance Management Regulations, supplementary budgets are exclusively for unforeseen and unavoidable circumstances. Any expenditure known before the original budget is finalised should not be considered unexpected. Every time we discuss Supplementary Budget 1 or 2, the budget keeps going up. The National Treasury should generate a comprehensive list of expenditures to identify areas in the Consolidated Fund where spending can be reduced, or made more efficient. They should prioritise expenditures. I look forward to when we will not take on more debt for at least two or three years. If we could do this and live within our means, then our problems would lessen. We collect a lot of taxes yet Kenyans continue to become poorer. Pensioners are not receiving their dues, teachers are demanding their pay, and doctors are crying in the streets, yet we continue to overtax them. I would like to see us not borrowing any money for at least two or three years. We should not overtax Kenyans. We can reduce our expenditure on development and recurrent costs until we are comfortable. Otherwise, I support and recommend that we live within our means."
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