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    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am in between but at the end of the day, I think this has been forced on us. First of all, in my life history, it is the first time I am seeing two Supplementary Budgets within a short time. The last time we had a Supplementary Budget here which I happily appended my signature to is about four months ago. Now the second Supplementary Budget is here and it is about week to go to the end of the month. That means there is somebody somewhere in the Treasury coming up with new ways of doing things which this House should not accept. It is a new trend and the Chairman made it very clear and I want to agree with him and with the recommendation he has made. This is not the way to do things because we are getting into a wrong habit. I quite agree that we have very able people in the Treasury; people with PhDs and a supporting staff that is learned. We have economists of this country. Why are we having the second Supplementary Budget within four months? Somebody somewhere sat on the job. I do not agree with this; that we sit here, do a Budget and somebody does not know what is going to happen four months down the line. Secondly, I like the Budget that we had because it was a programme-based Budget. For the so-called Supplementary Budget, tell me, what are the outputs? I have to be told as a taxpayer; people out here want to know, what are we paying for? The other thing that amuses me is that this House, which I belong, questioned the payment of Anglo Leasing. We asked ourselves here, who are we paying? Nobody has told me who we are paying. I now see this so-called Supplementary Budget and I am told it is already paid. From the outset, the Chairman has presented here that he has paid Kshs.1.5 billion. Where did the money come from? That is the question Kenyans are asking. I have just come from my constituency and those are the questions we are being asked. I am short of answers for some of these questions. My particular concern is the fact that the Supplementary Budget we are passing today, if it is going to be passed and I know it is going to be passed, there is that element of Anglo Leasing. Personally, my conscience is clear. Let it be passed but I want to be on record that I did not approve it, because we had not given anybody the permission to pay the Anglo Leasing. There is an issue here. Having worked in the public sector, we have parastatals out there that are making money. I think the Chairman has asked the question of generation of revenue. I think in Kenya’s context, those are cash cows. The Treasury should be able to look at that and find out what is happening with parastatals in this country that are making money. That should have helped some of these programmes. I would have liked to see that captured in this Budget. Again, hon. Speaker I am at a loss. Please do not take it personally because I am not sure what I am passing here. I am an economist and I am not sure. Nothing is clear to me, more specifically when Treasury can come and tell us, now tumepitisha hii . They find it very easy; we are rubber stamping issues that we have been questioning. I want when the next Supplementary Budget comes up to be told that this is specifically for this particular payment and then I will go with it. I should also be told why they underestimated that particular cost. We are now with Euro Bonds. I can assure you that we are going to have more problems with the same characters at Treasury. We will have more problems because The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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