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    "id": 453847,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "The reason I am totally opposed to this Bill – I do not mince words because I oppose it with or without amendments – is that the issue of planning and most budgeting- -- The main purpose of this Bill in its objectives is financial budgeting in the county. I am not ready as a Member of the National Assembly to be drawn to boardrooms to do financial budgeting at the governor’s office. This is an assignment or a responsibility of the governor and his county executive committee. If you look at the national level, we are part of the national Government. However, we have never sat down with the President and his Cabinet as Members of the National Assembly or the Senate and try to plan how much to spend here and there. Let them initiate their budgeting. That is the level which we will be called upon as Members of the National Assembly to look into the matter and also give our own views and critique. That has to come through the Departmental Committees of this House. Hon. Speaker, this afternoon the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, hon. Mutava Musyimi laid a Paper on Budget Policy Statement. It is at this stage that this House needs to critique the planning and budgeting of the Executive. Therefore, what the Board is proposing to do, in my view, should be left to the county assembly to receive a proposal of budgeting and planning from the governor. The Budget and Appropriations Committee of the county assembly can then inform the county assembly which will give its views and either amend or vary that. That is what is required by law. Yesterday, I sat very attentively in this Chamber following very keenly what hon. Members were saying. Let me pick from what the Seconder of the Motion said yesterday. When hon. Bishop Mutemi was seconding this Motion, he said that in this Board we will bring together all the NGOs in the county and also all the CDF committees for proper planning and budgeting. That is what the Seconder said and it is the HANSARD. He said that CDF committees and NGOs will all be put together under this Board for proper planning and budgeting. I do not think that is the way to go."
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