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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I want to join my colleagues in congratulating the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the great work that they have done on this Budget. I would also like to congratulate our Budget Office. The Executive keeps telling us that they have moved to a programme-based Budget and yet we see a lot of signs of incremental budgeting and it is only our Budget Office that has been very keen at pointing out this. We noted that in cases where new programmes have been introduced, the Treasury had problems jumping from probably Kshs10 million to Kshs100 billion in one line and we are able to deal with that. I think some of the hangovers of incremental budgeting need to be addressed. Hon. Speaker, I am very pleased with the fact that whereas in the last Budget we were still grappling with transition, in this Budget we have actually been able to put the Executive on check and they were able to make very good recommendations that are answering issues that affect Kenyans. Hon. Speaker, as the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources I am under immense pressure to declare poaching a national disaster but being a person from that area of conservation, I know that declaring poaching a national disaster would not translate into reduction in poaching much as I really feel for the fact that we are really loosing much of our national heritage. It is with that in mind that our Committee reduced the budget for non-essential development activities and gave funding for recruitment of rangers so that we deal with this matter where it matters most. We were able to raise Kshs500 million in terms of reduction and I am very happy that the Budget and Appropriations Committee added for us Kshs250 million for purposes of recruiting 500 rangers. The poaching problem is a security problem similar to the issue of terrorism and we would only be able to fight it by giving it funding, which is why I am extremely happy that the Budget and Appropriations Committee has declined the proposal from the Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations to reduce funding to the National Intelligence Service (NIS)."
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