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    "id": 449297,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nanok",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2947,
        "legal_name": "Daniel Epuyo Nanok",
        "slug": "daniel-epuyo-nanok"
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    "content": "departments and agencies are defeating the budgetary process by this Supplementary Budget. This is because money is being shifted after it has been planned for and we have had public participation involved in this. After Parliament has approved the Budget, then you suddenly have two Supplementary Budgets in one year. This is actually defeating the budgetary process. On the other hand, when you look at the reductions that are being done and the additions--- We heard that the reduction is heavy on development budget and low on expenditure budget; thereby increasing the expenditure vote. This undermines the development of the country as a whole. With that trend, how do we expect the economy to grow when we are just spending and not investing in job creation? The other thing is the old approach to the budgetary process. The older approach was that the budgetary process was a technocrat’s field. The new Constitution has given us a new dimension to the budgetary process and Parliament is no longer a budget approving, but a budget-making institution. Yet the Ministries are not buying this idea. That is why we are faced with Supplementary Budgets. Parliament, having approved the budgets and made them, is getting re-introductions of expenditures that were not envisioned. It means either our Ministries are not effectively budgeting or they are overambitious in their budgets and therefore, occasioning the supplementary budgets being introduced here. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we run the risk of overambitious budgeting thereby encouraging miss-allocation of funds. That would, therefore, require that the budget be spent within the budgetary allocations. That is going to lead us into a situation where we start the budgetary process and then along the way it is derailed in its implementation and that will cost this country. Budgets are meant to develop this economy and when the economy develops, the living standards of Kenyans are supposed to grow. I would like to see us improve in our education and health sectors. Year in, year out, with the budget supplementary estimates that we have we are not seeing these improvements. Instead we are seeing downward trends in the quality of life that Kenyans are having. Therefore, the supplementary budgets, as the Committee proposed should be discouraged. Given the legal provision, we should allow just one supplementary budget so that our Ministries and implementing agencies are able to do effective budgeting. Budgets do not get revised along the way and that defeats the main purpose of having the budgets made. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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