{"id":23284,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/23284/?format=json","text_counter":72,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Midiwo","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":184,"legal_name":"Washington Jakoyo Midiwo","slug":"jakoyo-midiwo"},"content":"Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I wish to support the amendment. I sit in the Finance, Planning and Trade Committee. We considered the amendment. Just to try to convince hon. Mbadi, 2 per cent of an ever increasing amount for contingencies--- This is a Fund that you only use during emergencies. The 2 per cent, even today, could be billions. What emergency would hit Kenyan so that we would prepare in such a way that we lock our Funds in an account awaiting emergencies? I think the smaller the better. That is an account that we could use and replenish as the emergencies occur. We are trying to avoid a scenario where in future, someone can raid that Fund, buy vehicles and other things that are non-emergency, and report that the money was just available and you would have nothing against him because, according to the law, it is a Fund that you can replenish."}