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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Karachuonyo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Adipo Okuome",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to add my voice to this important issue. Before I do that, let me thank my colleague whom we elected as the Chairlady of the Regional Integration Committee, Hon. Irene Mayaka. Congratulations. I wish her the best of luck. Sometimes, I wonder why we have a supplementary budget if it looks like a fresh budget and not a supplementary. Looking at what we budgeted for, why are we adding money to what we passed for the whole year? This is because we do not have enough revenue to support it. Have we asked ourselves why we do not have enough revenue to support the Budget? I know this has been a recurrent situation. We do not get enough revenue as per the estimates all the time. We always have a shortfall. Why? This is because we are over budgeting, or those who collect revenue are not doing their work adequately. These are very substantial issues that cause problems. Looking at the history of our expenditure based on the budget estimates and comparing it with the revenue, we see that it has never been balanced. We keep on increasing the Budget, yet our shortfall is always constant. The same thing is happening with the expenditure, which is increasing but is not supported by revenues. We need to address these issues fully. When I talk of revenues, it is not just KRA but also what we expect from Appropriation-in-Aid (A-in-A). That is own-source- The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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