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    "content": "We were not convinced that certain programmes that had been put had been supported properly, or had been accounted for previously in the last financial year. It is our mandate and responsibility to protect the taxpayer in our oversight function and to make sure that whatever is presented to us is properly supported. As a Departmental Committee on Defence and Foreign Relations, we are on record as having supported our line Ministries to the hilt in terms of the budget-making process. In fact, in the last Budget Policy Statement (BPS), we made a recommendation for the increase of the sector ceilings for our line Ministries and that was accepted by the Budget and Appropriations Committee. So, nobody can accuse us of being punitive or vindictive, in making the recommendations that we made. This is because we were only doing so in the interests of the taxpayers of Kenya, and in the interest of the policy programmes of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Should they have wanted to come and make a presentation and ask for the return of those monies, or for the increase of their Budget estimates, certainly that would easily have been accommodated; we would have made the requisite amendments during the supplementary budgets. So, hon. Speaker, we are now in a position where we are looking up to you."
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