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    "id": 297294,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baiya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "This is going to become entrenched as a precedent which will become very difficult to overcome in future. It is, therefore, imperative that it be stated clearly and categorically that the mechanism of Vote on Account is actually not envisaged in the new Constitution. It is anticipated that an Appropriation Bill should be presented clearly well within the timelines which have been set. He has the Budget Committee Report. The Committee’s recommendations only affect about Kshs19 billion out of a budget of about Kshs1.46 trillion. So, if he had dealt with those issues, he would have actually brought in an Appropriation Bill quite timely for it to be passed for the first time before the end of the current financial year. What this really would have done in terms of our Budget circle is that the various Ministries would have had a whole fresh year to implement the Budget duly approved by this Parliament. This would have improved also the role of oversight by Parliament, because they will be implementing. But right now, with a Vote on Account, what most of the Ministries do is to selectively implement what they are going to do, because it has not received full approval of Parliament, which can only be done through the Appropriation Bill. So, we expect the Minister, in accordance with the spirit of the new Constitution, which requires that public finance be managed prudently and efficiently, to take the opportunity to ensure that The Appropriation Bill is passed well before the end of the financial year. This will ensure that Ministries and departments have a full year to implement not a Vote on Account but the full Budget that was passed. This is the new standard that the Constitution aspires to bring the country into. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is no clear explanation being given by the Minister as to why he is not making available this opportunity. We are ready even to stop the Adjournment Motion by a week, so that we seize the opportunity, for once, to ensure that"
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