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    "id": 515493,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I wish to thank the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Budget and Appropriations, through you, for the opportunity we got this morning to present the issues that came up yesterday before him. Even as we debate the amendments, we must ask ourselves how we got to this. My view is that we got to this because in the proposals that were before us, we did not quite follow the principles of public finance as outlined in Article 201 of the Constitution. Among the key requirements in Article 201 of the Constitution is that there shall be openness and accountability in the use of public funds. We appeared before the Committee this morning. Of course, our prayer was that the Kshs3billion should be taken to the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). We had an engagement and at the end of it, the Chairman of the Committee requested us that they needed to canvass among themselves because they also had other requests from other interested sections of this House. Personally, I leave it to the House to decide on the allocations. We were not there when they did the allocations. However, we made our case and we were requested to leave. I leave it to the House to decide whether or not the request that we had put has been satisfied. Personally, I am not satisfied because I wanted all the Kshs3 billion to go the CDF. The money has not been allocated to the CDF. There is also the bigger question. When the Report was prepared, it clearly talked of “additional” which means that there is something else. This “something else” is not coming out clearly. The Chairman, therefore, ought to have explained to us what is additional. It is because it is talking of an additional Kshs3billion?"
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