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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance to add my voice to this discussion on Supplementary Budget. Hon. Speaker, the Supplementary Budget is a very important portion of the budget-making process of this country. The reason it is allowed in our Constitution is because it allows for flexibility into our budget-making process. What is important is that the Supplementary Budget will allow the Executive to bring in things which have not been planned for to the House for approval. Even as I comment on this report, I want to draw to the attention of this House that the Report we are discussing today was received in this House on 18th December, 2014. From December to date, it has taken a very long time for this House to discuss this Supplementary Budget. When you look at the Constitution, it clearly states that the Executive has the authority to withdraw from the Consolidated Fund but that withdrawal must be regularized by this House within two months. Even as we debate, I am asking myself, to what extent are the figures we are seeing here--- Could there be some which have gone beyond the two months? And if some have gone beyond that, are we within the Constitution? Does that not call for a situation where as we discuss the Supplementary Budget in future, that we have some details in terms of what has been spent and what is planned to be spent so that as we discuss as a House, we are in the picture of what is happening? Having said, that as we support the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, being a member, there are critical things we need to agree on as a House. Some of the things mentioned by the hon. Members were also mentioned last year when we were discussing the Supplementary Budget and I can tell you we will be getting another Supplementary Budget possibly before the end of the year. The question is, anytime we discuss the Supplementary in this House, we more so raise the same issues, for example, we are saying Supplementary Budget should only factor in unforeseen expenditures which had not been planned for and they are also like emergency in nature. When you look at this Supplementary Budget, you realize that there are quite a number of new programmes and one has just been mentioned now. To what extent is a programme like lighting up of Nairobi City an emergency in this country? Why can we not agree that this kind of expenditure can easily go into the normal budget-making 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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