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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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    "content": "Policy Statement is made so that we can then prosecute the statement knowing that it will really guide the rest of the undertakings in the process. Hon. Speaker, may I also say that we have expressed the need to mainstream programme-based budgeting as is expected by the Public Finance Management Act of 2012. It is going to be very crucial that we professionalize the programme engagement of the Government. It is so important because in so doing, we will reduce some of the concerns we have heard of wastage, corruption and many loopholes we have created by not being professional enough in mainstreaming the PBB. Hon. Speaker, may I say that my Committee fully shares the concerns raised by hon. Members here, especially hon. Prof. Nyikal, who is a Member of our Committee. But we support the leasing, which we have said as a Committee. But we are also saying in our report and I quote:- “The policy of leasing of equipment and movable assets needs to be reviewed to determine its viability in terms of whether the Government is saving money and the advantages of leasing as opposed to buying.” Hon. Speaker, may I also say that we are concerned about the tensions that seem to be there in certain spending agencies; in particular the challenges within the health sector. It seems to be the one sector that is having challenges in seeking to implement the new Constitution. Therefore, some of the issues that are now coming up in level five hospitals are on a report that I will be laying on Table, later today. I trust I will do that. We see the same challenges in the relations between Ardhi House and the National Lands Commission. The struggle for the new Constitution had a lot to do with land. I was in this Chamber when we were adopting the report to support the engagement by Kofi Annan. One if the items - which we called Agenda Six - was actually on the issue of land reforms. It is so crucial that we see more and more close working relationship between the Ministry and the National Land Commission. We are asking the Departmental Committee on Land – In fact, as a Committee, we have said that we want to see how we can accompany the Departmental Committee on Health and the Ministry of Lands and the National Land Commission. We cannot stand to see those frictions and disagreements spilling over and affecting service delivery on issues as sensitive as health and land reforms. Therefore, we are asking Committees to do their work in monitoring the work of Ministries and the spending agencies. Enough is not happening. Along those lines, we are also saying that the monitoring and evaluation programmes need to be escalated by the spending agencies. We need to be very clear on what the core and non-core areas are."
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