Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 276093,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/276093/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 778,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Githae",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Finance",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 159,
        "legal_name": "Robinson Njeru Githae",
        "slug": "robinson-githae"
    },
    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will first of all deal with the latter assertion by Mr. Ethuro that on the Equalization Fund Bill, the date has not been released and there is impunity. I beg to inform the House that that position has been rectified and in this year’s Budget we have allocated double funding for the Equalization Fund. That is Kshs3 billion each. So, it will be a total of Kshs6.7 billion to cover for the year that was missed out. So, that has been rectified. That shows that this Executive is ready to comply with all the provisions of the Constitution. It will also comply with all the provisions of the Act of Parliament. But we must also understand that we are going through a transition. This is a new era that we are now going through. It changes even the way we have been used to preparing our budgets. It takes time before the systems are in the proper place. I would now like to assure this House that systems are there and it is all systems go. Coming to the issue that was raised by Mr. Mbadi, I would like to say two things. One, I would like to agree with what Mr. Kimunya has proposed that, in effect, in the County Governments Bill, that provision has already been covered and what we are trying to do is just to bring this provision so that it applies for both county governments and national Government."
}