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    "id": 158215,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Okemo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. While I support the Motion, I would like to make a couple of comments. One is that we should not be congratulating the Minister for varying the figures that are contained in the Printed Estimates. This is because Supplementary Estimates are meant to deal with unforeseen items. However, there is nothing unforeseen when I look at the list of the reductions and additions. Either they should have been captured in the Budget originally or they should await the next Budget and be passed alongside other ordinary expenditures. The Supplementary Estimates only exist to make it possible for the Minister for Finance to deal with unforeseen circumstances. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in this case, I think the unforeseen circumstances were the consequences of the post-election violence. Therefore, what should have been captured in the Supplementary Estimates ought to have been issues related to that. I cannot congratulate the Minister when I see, for example, an increase in the refurbishment of embassies overseas amounting to Kshs800 million at this point in time, when that money could have been diverted to something elsewhere."
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