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    "id": 553670,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the Financial Year 2015 / 2016. As I contribute, I would like to comment on the remark by my good friend Rev. Mutava Musyimi, who bemoaned the culture of suspicion and mistrust in the House. Even though he is not in the House, I would advise him that if he adhered to the principles of public finance which require openness and accountability, perhaps nobody would be suspicious nor would there be mistrust. I have looked at the schedule that has been attached to this Motion and I note that our allocation for security-related functions which is Interior, Defence and Intelligence is over Kshs 220 billion. This is the largest security allocation in the whole of East Africa. In fact, judging by what I have just been looking through, this security allocation is bigger than that of Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi combined. It translates to a whopping Kshs 4.5 billion per county. Then of course the question must be asked: “Why then are we so insecure, with such a big allocation?” I also note that the Recurrent Expenditure for policing services alone is nearly Kshs 69 billion. This is equivalent to about Kshs 1.5 billion per county. Again the question that is being asked is: “With such a big allocation, why are we so unsafe?” I have talked to some of the policemen in my constituency and sometimes they tell me that in a day they are given an allocation for as little as three litres of fuel per day. The question and from where I sit in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) if it is to be asked is: “Where is this money going?”"
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