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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muturi",
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        "legal_name": "Justin Bedan Njoka Muturi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Right from the outset, I would like to state that I support this Motion. When the Minister was moving this Motion, he indicated that some of the new requirements that he has made in the Supplementary Estimates were, for instance, those payments related to teachers' salaries and those intended to go into the revival of Uchumi Supermarkets. Those are moves that are welcome. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you look through the Supplementary Estimates, sometimes you wonder what happens between the time the main Budget is prepared and the last three- quarters of the financial year. I would have expected that if the Government was really serious about this issue they call Vision 2030, which falls under the Ministry of Planning and National Development---When the Budget was presented here in June, last year, the provision that they made at that time was around a figure of Kshs14 million. One, then, wonders whether really the Ministry had an idea of what kind of secretariat, personnel and staff they would require to spearhead the Vision 2030, if, indeed, it was meant to be a serious outfit. This is because they are now requesting for an additional Kshs197 million and that is shown as going towards Vision 2030's secretariat. One wonders whether the Ministry of Planning and National Development ever planned at all and if they did, what was their idea of the kind of secretariat that they would need to handle that very huge responsibility for them to have expected that Kshs14 million would be enough. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are told that the Supplementary Estimates are meant to cushion the Government from some of the unexpected happenings and so on. One wonders, when you look at the provision for the Ministry of Agriculture, for instance, the April 24, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 865 Horticultural Crops Development Authority, you are shown that certain monies are to go to current grants, Government agencies and other levels of Government. Of course, the tradition is that nobody ever explains which these levels of Government are. However, suffice it to point out that at the time of the Budget, if you look through the Supplementary Estimates as presented here---As you know, you and I have problems even reading those figures because they are done in such small print that I always think that the intention is that they should not be questioned sufficiently. The more reason why I agree with Mr. Weya when he suggests that we actually need to begin posting some of this information to some website for the Ministry of Finance so that those of us who are ageing and have problems with eyesight, like the Minister for Planning and National Development, will be able to find this information without straining a lot."
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