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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
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    "content": "Supplementary Appropriation that Kshs300 million be retained under Recurrent Vote and Kshs200 million be reallocated to the Development Vote in order to address those challenges. Hon. Speaker, my Committee is concerned by the continued disregard by the National Treasury of the Resolutions of this House pertaining to policy issues as pointed out in various sections of this Report. In this regard, my Committee directs that the National Treasury implements the resolutions of this House as contained in the Budget and Appropriations Committee Report on the first Supplementary Budget Estimates 2013/2014. Hon. Speaker, in addition, my Committee proposes the following policy measures:- (i) That before any supplementary budget estimate is approved by this House, the statement on how additional expenditure relates to fiscal responsibility principles and financial objectives as required by the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act should be provided. (ii) That since this House approved the budget on programme basis, the supplementary budget should be presented in the same format. (iii) That, as was resolved by this House in the Budget and Appropriations Committee Report on Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure of 2014/2015, the reviewed procurement law should be submitted to the National Assembly within the stipulated time-frame to address procurement challenges and finally, (iv) That, measures should be put in place to address issues surrounding collection and accounting of Appropriations-in-Aid (A-in-A) to address A-in-A under-performance. Hon. Speaker, some of these things are not being said for the first time and, as I have said before, and you too have said it, as I close, let me just say that we are having enormous problems getting the National Treasury to respect the timelines set out in the laws that we pass. It is becoming an absolute nightmare in processing these budgets. We work throughout, sometimes, on weekends and the National Treasury does not seem to see the need to keep its own commitments which makes work not that easy. Hon. Speaker, with that, I would like to ask John “Suba”--- I call him those names. You will have to allow me because you were not here when I said I am an Anglican as you probably know. If the constituency of Suba was an Anglican diocese in the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) and the hon. John Mbadi were its bishop, in the true Anglican tradition worldwide, he could be John Suba. Just like I had a bishop when I was a young man, who was the Bishop of the Diocese of Mount Kenya, the late Bishop Obadiah Kariuki. He was Obadiah Mount Kenya. So, with your kind permission may I request the hon. John to second the Motion?"
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