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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbau",
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        "legal_name": "Elias Peter Mbau",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to begin by thanking all the hon. Members who have contributed to this very important Motion. The Motion is supposed to bring sanity to the process of Budget making. If this Motion had been passed and become law in the last Ninth Parliament, some of the mal-administration and mal-practices in the Budget-making process and, indeed, the problems that have now faced this country, may not have taken place. So, I want to emphasise that Parliament must, of necessity, play its rightful role in ensuring that the Government spending remains under control, and that the same is accounted for in line with priorities and aspirations of Kenyans, the people that this House represents. This House owes it to Kenyans to ensure that every cent and shilling from tax money is put to proper use, and is spent on the items or objective for which it was intended. For this to happen, Parliament must have better and regular flow of information; this will enable it to provide this broader oversight on Government spending. I realise that in the Ninth Parliament - and I want to commend it - a resolution of this House created a Fiscal Analysis and Appropriation Committee and an office. That office was staffed with experts on budgets, economics and financial management. But until there is a statute to regulate the flow, and structure how such flow of information gets to hon. Members in a formal manner, this Committee will be rendered useless for some time. For that reason, I want to submit that a law is required, and urgently so, to provide for the responsibility of the Government to become transparent and accountable to this House and to the people of Kenya, so that we can achieve sustainable levels of development. This will help us reach our aspirations and goals of Vision 2030 according to the current plan. For this to happen, the passing of this Motion must be taken as a priority. This is a step in the right direction and I wish to urge all hon. Members, who are here now, to support this Motion and eventually support the Bill that will emanate from this Motion. With those few remarks, I beg to move."
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