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    "id": 365129,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, Sir, as I second this Motion it is good to state that this House passed the Supplementary Budget in January, 2013. The Government has, however, continued to face major challenges. That has been contributed to largely by a weak global economy that has in a way affected our tax collection agency, which has so far not been able to register good, or very encouraging performance in terms of revenue collection. This Motion, therefore, is seeking the authority of this House to allow the Executive to look for ways of meeting this unanticipated expenditure through the ways the Mover of this Motion has highlighted. This will not be achieved by raising taxes, but rather through reorganization and rationalization of the Budget by deferring non-priority expenditure to the next financial year. Therefore, as I support this Motion; it is good to note that some of these unanticipated expenditure includes the security operations that are very necessary. It is always very difficult to plan and anticipate security operations because sometimes unplanned things take place. That is why an extra Kshs5.2 billion was spent on security operations, especially this time when we have a kind of insecure environment in the entire country. You know our region is highly threatened by the Al Shabaab and other insurgents. You may also not be able to anticipate when floods will occur. In the last three months this country has received good rains. At times the negative happens. Floods that wreak havoc on our roads, bridges and low lying areas like Tana River were not anticipated when we approved the Supplementary Budget in January, 2013. It is good that several measures were taken. We had both food and non-food services. This Motion is seeking authority to incur this expenditure."
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