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    "id": 455304,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
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    "content": "contribution to the overall Recurrent Expenditure, the Supplementary Budget proposes to increase funding for salary-related items to several spending agencies. Although recruitment is required in some key areas such as security, this august House must demand a stay on any increase in the wage bill until a concrete policy position on the comprehensive way forward is arrived at. Hon. Speaker, the Supplementary Estimates further propose to reduce funds for some strategic interventions, planned and approved in the 2013/2014 Budget as priority projects. This creates uncertainty on the commitment to adherence to the annual Budget. This is precipitated by the unrealistic projection of revenues to meet expenditure at the beginning of a financial year which when unrealized, results in cuts in Development Expenditure and further into pending bills. This has led to critical projects such as irrigation schemes as well as construction of water pans and small dams which were allocated significant resources in the annual estimates but are now proposed for reduction to zero in the Supplementary Estimates. Hon. Speaker, the Supplementary Budget further proposes to provide for resources omitted during the Printed Estimates for several institutions. These include resources for Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA), Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KERRA) and Rural Electrification Authority (REA) as well as other projects not provided for in the Printed Estimates. The resources for the National Land Commission which were previously budgeted under the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development have been proposed for demarcation in line with Article 249(3) of our Constitution which requires that commissions should have a separate vote. The Committee further noted the proposed increase of resources available to the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) to recruit rangers to curb poaching and conserve our national heritage as well as increment to CDF, Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) and the Parliamentary Service Commission. The Supplementary Budget further proposes to increase the allocation to the national food security under the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries for acquisition of strategic food stocks to meet the deficit in the areas experiencing food shortage as a result of drought and inadequate food supply recently experienced in quite a number of areas of our country. Hon. Speaker, the Committee further noted that the resources for social security within the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Services have been proposed for reallocation to targeted services such cash transfers to all the persons, cash transfers to persons with severe disability, orphans and urban children for urban subsidies. My Committee further noted that the Supplementary Budget proposes to transfer some projects across Ministries that include: 1. Disaster Management and Western Flood Mitigation Project from the Ministry of Interior and Co-ordination of National Government to the Ministry of Devolution and Planning."
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