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    "id": 144883,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as a Committee, we had time to look at this Motion of Vote on Account and to think through whether what the Minister is asking for; 50 per cent, really, it needs to be given to the Minister to spend at this time. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to say that, as a Committee, we failed to arrive at a scientific way of assessing the 50 per cent or any other percentage that would be proposed. So, we agreed, as a Committee, that we would support this Motion, but on condition to the Minister that, next time, we expect a bit of innovation and creativity. Because if you look at the request for 50 per cent, the Recurrent Expenditure that the Minister is asking for is normally spent almost evenly throughout the year. So, if you strictly follow the Recurrent Expenditure, probably the Minister would have come up with something like 16 to 20 per cent of the total Recurrent Expenditure Budget because we only have two months to critically analyze the Budget and make the approval at the end of August, 2009. So, as a Committee, yes, we accepted to support the Motion, but on condition that the Minister becomes more creative next time so that we do not just have a uniform percentage request for approval of Vote on Account."
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