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    "id": 1532603,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1532603/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Molo, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kuria Kimani",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Speaker, we made the following non-financial Committee recommendations: 1. Article 223 payments should have a stronger parliamentary oversight mechanism. 2. We must ensure there is digital revenue collection to improve tax buoyancy and compliance. 3. We must ensure the implementation of the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, 2024, that the House passed in December 2024 to ensure that there is transparency and value for money in our procurement processes. 4. To ensure financial reporting accuracy, we must accelerate Kenya's transition from cash to an accrual accounting system. 5. We must strengthen fiscal decentralisation by expediting the Equalisation Fund disbursement through a predictable transfer formula. Kenya stands at a crossroads where fiscal discipline must be enforced to ensure macroeconomic stability and sustainable development. The revenue shortfalls and expenditure re-allocations call for data-driven decision-making, robust fiscal policies, and accountability. Winston Churchill once said, \"The price of greatness is responsibility.\" Let us diligently exercise our legislative duty and ensure that every shilling is spent with transparency and impact. As we move to the Committee of Supply on the Second Supplementary Estimates, I urge this House to scrutinise those Votes and ensure they properly carry out their oversight role and resources are allocated as they should be. All of us in oversight committees must carry out our roles diligently because we sit in very privileged situations where other Kenyans do not. We should not only oversee revenue collection, but also expenditure to ensure that money is spent fairly, efficiently, and that there is value for money to the taxpayer."
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