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    "id": 250119,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Billow",
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        "legal_name": "Billow Adan Kerrow",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the things I want to advise this Government is about transparency in the implementation of these Supplementary Estimates. When we went through them last week, I raised the issue of lack of transparency that certain expenditures are being deliberately hidden to block Parliament from identifying them. A good example is when, last week, on the Floor of this House, I requested the Minister for Finance to tell this House in his reply where exactly he included the increase of salaries of Ministers and Assistant Ministers. Under which Vote did he include that? We went through Supplementary Estimates and we could not locate the Vote. Subsequently, I found out from the Accounting Officer that the increment had actually been factored in under an Item titled, \"Personal allowances as part of salaries.\" However much today's Government tries to hide these things, tomorrow, the Controller and Auditor-General will find out and history will judge you harshly. So, my advice is that we need to be transparent in the preparation of budgetary estimates. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I beg to support."
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