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    "id": 430159,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mohamed Abass",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Abass Sheikh Mohamed",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Report with amendments. I want to commend the Committee for looking into the key issues. If you may remember, in the past, any time there was Supplementary Budget, there was tendency of abuse of money. There was a lot of rush as we approached April/May, there tended to be a lot of unnecessary purchases and tendering. This has also been used, in most time, to misuse funds. I hope that the Budget and Appropriations Committee will come with stringent measures to ensure that these kind of tendering processes are not done and there is no misuse of funds. Currently, the counties are doing a lot of tendering processes. They are doing a lot of purchases of goods and services and there is a lot of rush. The Budget Policy should be changed to allow continuity of some of the development funds to the next Budget, so that we avoid any misuse of funds and rush for buying unnecessary services. While I commend the Committee, I know that the Budget process is not easy, especially for the counties which are currently setting up their systems. There is need for the counties to be given time to develop systems, technicalities and technical knowhow, so that we can avoid any abuse or misuse of funds because of rushing it. I also want to thank the Committee for considering the stimulus plan. It is a very good gesture. However, that money is not enough. As you are aware, the goods and services in most of the remote areas are very expensive and the Kshs5 million across the board should not be the case. It would have been fair to consider areas that are far away from Nairobi where goods and services are very expensive to give them sufficient funds."
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