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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as one speaker once said; the people’s time has come. Their 40th day is here. I remember in one of the Committee meetings when I was the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, when one Minister confessed that every Paper was prepared and it was indicated to him that he should sign the document on the dotted lines. It is high time that those technocrats are brought to account and be made to carry their own cross. Secondly, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is an issue that Mr. Michuki raised about computerization. As he said, when someone is given the monopoly of supplying a computer package, they do not want to do an audit report of the same package. We must unveil that. If Kenyans must know about the budgeting process in terms of the flow of figures, let them know. There is a statement here that describes how these figures were arrived at. It indicates that there was poor editorial finalization of parliamentary formatting of this Budget. I want to request my dear colleague and friend, Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, to crack the whip so that it can be a lesson to those behind him. The Ministry of Finance, over time has become like a kichinjio . Every Minister who goes there comes out limping. Only a few come out unscathed. It is important now that the technocrats in the Treasury also know that their days are numbered so that when Mr. Kenyatta walks out and somebody else walks in, they can walk straight because the system will be clean. Perhaps, this could be the right time in terms of decision-making process to see how we can divorce politics from technocrats who are running the Ministries. That could be possible if we have in place a Constitution which provides a Minister who is answerable to Parliament. He will have all the time out there to answer to Parliamentarians. This will not come because we have said it in here. We must have structures and institutional reforms which we promised Kenyans through the constitutional review process, including our procurement process. Why are Kenyans suffering today in terms of misappropriation of resources? This is because even our procurement procedure is flawed. We take a long time to implement a procedure. That is why Ministries, which have been allocated funds, cannot spend the full amount because it takes six months to have a procedure of procurement go through,"
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