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    "id": 1575982,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is sometimes difficult to deal with this matter. Just a few days ago, during the Budget process, similar recommendations of a 60-day timeline were made. The same timeline was recommended when we were doing the Supplementary Budget. Hon. Temporary Speaker, one day you will have to guide us on when the 60 days start and end because it is becoming a boring song. The Report is not very clear on exactly what is happening, and that is why the Member who was asked to second the Motion had nothing useful to add. The timing of these fundamental Supplementary Budgets, whether under Articles 114 or 223 of the Constitution, is highly suspicious. Accountants will tell you that it is important to clean up the books at the end of a financial year, but there are always restatements that can happen after the financial year. Hon. Temporary Speaker, if you received Ksh1 billion right now, how would you absorb it between now and Monday? Something is wrong somewhere. If it were a recurring expenditure, we could argue that there is a loan under the CFS that we had forgotten to repay, which is due on Friday. We could understand that. How the National Treasury can forget the maturity of a loan is very baffling. Everybody would imagine that the recurrent expenditure for salaries, allowances, and remuneration for constitutional officeholders is fixed. I am probably not an expert on the issue of Supplementary Budgets under the CFS, but if you give Hon. (Dr) Makali Mulu an opportunity to speak on this Motion, he can educate the uneducated. Otherwise, I have nothing useful to add other than being left in Wonderland. How can the CFS have a Supplementary Budget at the tail-end of the financial year?"
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