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"speaker_name": "Dr. Oburu",
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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) During the Financial Year 2011/2012, all Ministries dealing with drought related activities were requested to raise resources from within their normal budgets to fill the financing gap. Consequently, a total of Kshs4.9 billion was allocated towards drought mitigation. The specific amounts per Ministry were as follows:- 1. Ministry of Livestock Development, Kshs1.312 billion; 2. Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Kshs671 million; 3. Ministry of Energy, Kshs420 million; 4. Ministry of State for Special Programmes, Kshs1.550 billion; 5. Ministry of Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands, Kshs150 million; 6. Ministry of Education, Kshs551 million; 7. the health sector, Kshs311 million; 8. Ministry of Information and Communications, Kshs12 million. That is a total of Kshs4.977 billion. (a) The utilization of funds allocated by the Treasury falls under the mandate of respective Accounting Officers in charge of the various budgetary Votes. In this regard, we have written to the relevant Accounting Officers requesting details of expenditure of the allocated sums. I will avail to this House the expenditure breakdown of the said amounts as soon as we have obtained these details from the Accounting Officers. (b) As indicated in part (b) above, we are in the process of compiling expenditure returns from the various Accounting Officers, upon which, I will be able to provide a detailed breakdown of amounts spent on drought mitigation, including the amounts spent in Wajir South Constituency."
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