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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am also happy and I must pay tribute to my young brother, Hon. Atandi, for going through this rigorous process. We might have been hard on him, but that is the only way he can get harder. That is how we are brought up where I come from. There is an issue that was raised by Hon. Kangogo: The nexus between reports by the Office of the Auditor-General and the budget-making process. I would like to bring to the attention of the Budget and Appropriations Committee two areas of focus they need to look into next time. Normally, in each State department, there is a budgetary performance report that highlights what was appropriated, what was disbursed and what was spent. That is where the focus should be. It makes no sense to appropriate funds to a department that has no capacity to absorb the funds. It also does not make sense to appropriate funds which are never disbursed by the National Treasury. On average, 30 per cent of development funds are never disbursed by the end of a financial year. That makes the entire budgeting process academic. I raised the same matter at the beginning, but the Chairman took it personal, thinking that I was playing broad-based Government politics instead of performing my duties under Article 95 of the Constitution. I The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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