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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, this is not the first time we are doing a third Supplementary Estimates. In fact, there are times when it has been done on the last day of a financial year. These Estimates were tabled here one week ago. They were accordingly committed to all the Committees concerned. I sit in the Budget and Appropriations Committee. All chairpersons of Committees were given the opportunity to appear before the Budget and Appropriations Committee. In fact, more than half of the Committee Chairpersons appeared before the Committee. It is, therefore, not true to say that Committees had no chance to look at this document. More than half of the Committee Chairpersons appeared. In fact, for those who did not appear, it means that they were happy with the recommended cuts or increases, as it were. I, therefore, want to disagree with Hon. Kajwang’. Every Committee had a chance to sit, look at the Supplementary Estimates III and appear before the Budget and Appropriations Committee. On Monday, 23rd June 2025, we sat at a venue. There were times we sat for two hours waiting for Chairpersons, but they never appeared. We cannot force them to come before the Budget and Appropriations Committee. That is what happened. Let me tell the House that the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, and the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Education all appeared. Those who did not appear, Hon. Deputy Speaker, let no one lie to you, sent letters to the Budget and Appropriations Committee telling us what they believe should happen. So, in terms of participation, Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to assure and confirm to you that every single Committee participated in the process of the Supplementary Estimates III. It is wrong to say they did not. It is important to note that this is not the stage where we are going to start saying that there are sinister motives about a third Supplementary Estimates. The Hon. Member knows"
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