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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
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    "content": "Just to highlight one or two things by way of repeating myself, one is that the adjustments that are sought through this Bill have a lot to do with low absorption that continues to be a problem. That problem is, perhaps, caused by a number of things. The one that we would like to highlight that really needs a bit of attention especially from the Executive is the public sector. The ability of the public sector to deliver service – there are questions that now need to be asked about the public service in this Republic. I think time, perhaps, has come to ask ourselves whether we are not over-established and whether we have all the capacities we need to do the work that we are supposed to do as public servants. There seems to be a bit of lethargy in the public service. The Public Service Commission has its job cut out. These are things I said yesterday and I am repeating them briefly. We have a procurement law that is strong on prohibition and rather weak on facilitation. The sooner we review this law, the better. I think we erred on the side of protecting wrong and failed to give this country a law that makes it possible for us to procure services in good time. That has also been a challenge. There is decrease in the Appropriations-in-Aid. However, we are glad that we have the opportunity to support the security sector through this Supplementary Appropriation Bill. We continue to support agriculture and infrastructure. We have been told that the money that is supposed to come in from donor partners does not always come in as much as it should. This might be, perhaps, due to the inability to meet requirements of counterpart funding which tells us that there are liquidity challenges in the way we are seeking to fund our programmes. Hon. Speaker, I feel very proud to lead a team that is not just a team of politicians, but people who love this country. They are people who have proved to me that they are very professional and very programmatic in their thinking. Kenyans out there need to take comfort in the fact the Budget and Appropriations Committee has people who are up to the responsibilities that they have been given by the new law. Hon. Speaker, I beg to move and request hon. Aden Abdikadir, Member for Balambala to second."
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