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    "id": 1532571,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1532571/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Rural, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Mwalika",
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    "content": "have poor statistics, you are expected to have poor planning in the country. If we have poor statistics and the model is outdated, then it will be garbage in, garbage out. There is a need to seriously fund statistics in this country. Many Members have talked about Article 223 of the Constitution. By December, the request for Article 223 of the Constitution was Ksh88 billion. The National Treasury had approved Ksh40 billion. Out of this money, Ksh8 billion was allocated to roads. We did not know which roads they were. We asked for the list so that we could know the roads that were in emergency. Is it an emergency to fund those roads? It is high time we look at Article 223 of the Constitution. Some of the activities being funded under Article 223 of the Constitution are payment of salaries, servicing leave allowances, and a lot of recurrent expenditures. Article 223 of the Constitution should not be spent on recurrent expenditure. Hon. Mbadi said that when he becomes the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning, he will avoid using Article 223 of the Constitution. I do not think it can be avoided. However, some of the activities which are being funded by Article 223 of the Constitution, like salaries and money to recruit new staff in some Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), can be avoided. Immediately you take money and use it under Article 223 of the Constitution, you already affect the budgeted money, thus creating a deficit of another deficit. At the end of the day, we are going to have a deficit of Ksh1 trillion shillings resorting to borrowing and high debt servicing. This is something which we need to avoid."
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