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    "content": "on that. At the moment, as I stand here, neither source has materialized. This means that we have a huge Budget gap of about Kshs42 billion. Mr. Speaker, Sir, while we are thinking about approving these Supplementary Estimates, should the Minister not try to explain to us how he is going to be able to fill this gap of Kshs42 billion? Is he going to borrow domestically and what are the consequences? Is he going to go to the donors again? How is he going to finance this gap? If we do not address that, we are dealing with a non-finance Budget, which is not sustainable. I would like to ask the Minister for Finance to tell us how he is going to close the gap. Alongside that, I expected him to show us some kind of performance before presenting the Supplementary Estimates. How have we done in terms of what we budget and how much of that money have we spent? How much is yet to be spent? Mr. Speaker, Sir, when we were debating the Budget last time, the Minister promised that he would be showing the actual expenditure programmes quarterly so that we know that what we have approved is going to be spent. If by the end of this financial year, despite all these, we find that there is money that is unspent, that is bad budgeting. If we find that we have over-shot--- I know that the Minister is trying to address that through this Supplementary Estimates. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I end by saying that the Supplementary Budget should not be used for putting patches on the Approved Estimates. They should only be addressing unforeseen expenditures or unforeseen circumstances. That is what should be captured in the Supplementary Estimates. Having said all that, I beg to support."
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