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    "id": 51165,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also want to take this opportunity to thank my Committee for doing what others have said is a good job. So, I am also convinced that we must have done a very good job in addressing ourselves to the provisions of the Budget Policy Statement (BPS). What worries me most is the fact that this BPS is prepared as if we were still operating under the old Constitution; the one that we repealed on 27th August, 2010. Why do I say this? Even in the BPS itself, the legal framework says it is based on Fiscal Management Act. No mention is made of the new Constitution. That clearly indicates that this BPS is prepared with the mindset of the provisions of Fiscal Management Act, period. It has tried to address the requirements of the Fiscal Management Act. However, among very many requirements, it has only addressed about four of them. This is an attempt and an improvement of last year’s BPS. This BPS has actually failed this country in the sense that it is not attempting to address the issues that are provided in the Constitution. Chapter Four of the Constitution on the Bill of Rights has specified many issues; what the Government of Kenya is required to do. But if you look at the BPS, there are no deliberate provisions to make sure that Kenyans are fed. That is a constitutional requirement. To make sure that there is security in this country because it is now a constitutional requirement; to make sure that people have shelter in this country. One would have expected to see a departure from what has been the business as usual to the new dispensation. That is lacking in this BPS. We know we are likely to go for elections around August or if not, then December, next year. The BPS has provided nothing for the devolved system of government. Supposing we go for elections in August and the next budget will be in June, 2013? Between June and August, even if you now give the counties or governors money or the Executive and county legislative assemblies, will they set up infrastructure? How will they start work?"
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