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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Lati",
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        "legal_name": "Jonathan Lelelit Lati",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I am part of the Committee and I also rise to support this Motion. First, I commend the Committee for a job well-done. They interrogated this Supplementary Budget very well. However, even if we support this Motion, there are things that do not look right. A supplementary budget as clearly stated in Article 223 of the Constitution, basically addresses emergencies or unforeseen circumstances. The basic reason for any budgeting is so that we can estimate what we do almost clearly and we do not divert so much. An amount of Kshs57 billion is a lot of money. Just to put it into perspective, relative to CDF money which is one item which is well known in this House, CDF is about Khsh36 billion a year. We all know the kind of work CDF does for Kenyans each year. We know the magnitude of development which is CDF-related across our nation. However, CDF is only Kshs36 billion. I understand the diversity and the weight of Government but Kshs57 billion, particularly Kshs41 billion just for recurrent expenditure surpasses CDF and is something to consider. It is something which the Committee and this House should consider in subsequent years so that the Government does not so much digress from the budget that is planned. This House and the Committee spend the whole year drafting, considering and debating and for it to be more than the amount for CDF of all the 290 constituencies of this country particularly on the recurrent side, we are not being fair to ourselves as a country. 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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