{"id":357160,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/357160/?format=json","text_counter":133,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Mburu","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":2108,"legal_name":"Joseph Mburu Kahangara","slug":"joseph-mburu-kahangara"},"content":"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. My names are Hon. Mburu Stephen Kinyanjui. I rise to support this Bill. My colleague, who is a senior financial expert, Hon. Ng’ongo, has just said that we need to move serious amendments to this Bill. Immediately I got the Estimates of the Recurrent Expenditure, I rushed to the relevant Ministries and found that there were serious discrepancies. For example, in Nyandarua County, where I come, projects that had an allocation of about a Kshs1billion had been removed from these Estimates. These projects fall under three Ministries. So, I concur with my senior financial expert, Hon. Ng’ongo. I am also very grateful to Senator Khalwale because I was elected on the promise that I would be like Senator Khalwale and others. I concur with my senior, Hon. Ng’ongo, that we should move amendments to the Estimates that have been tabled before this House. I have found that the Kshs1.2 billion allocated to my projects is missing, and I do not know where that money has been taken. Those projects have kicked off; they have been awarded to consultants and are very important. They are denying Nyandarua County access to a project that has consumed Kshs4.2 billion and has been completed. However, we cannot use that facility, because of a very short stretch of about 34 kilometres which requires about Kshs1.2 billion to be done. So, Kshs4.2 billion of taxpayers’ money is not being utilized in our county because of that short link road that measures about 42 kilometres, and whose funds were relocated to other well-connected political projects in the last Parliament. So, I concur with my colleagues that we need to move amendments to make sure that Kshs1.2 billion allocated to a project in Nyandarua County is returned with immediate effect or without much ado. I would like to inform my colleagues on the other side of the House that we will play our oversight role even more than them. That is why I would kindly like to plead with our dear brothers, hon. Members, that they let us have in place the Budget Committee, which is crucial."}