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    "id": 554431,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/554431/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Supplementary Estimates. Even as I do so, it is important that we emphasise on the need for prudent utilisation of funds. I would like to give an example of the Ministry of State for Defence which is getting Kshs5.5 billion more in addition to the very high amount of money we allocated them for the full year. These are areas whose expenditures are unfortunately not clearly auditable. Many questions have been asked about this Ministry’s utilisation of the funds already allocated to it. Kenyans believe that we have over-budgeted in terms of allocations for the Ministry. We would like that Ministry to be put on the spotlight in terms of its expenditure. We should be cautious that we are allocating an additional Kshs5.5 billion over and above what we had allocated this Ministry before. Hon. Speaker, additionally, there is Recurrent Expenditure of Kshs6.6 billion towards the Integrated Financial Management Information Systems (IFMIS). These are huge amounts of money because we know that IFMIS is a system that was developed long time ago. The little we know about computer systems is that costs are incurred at the initial stage when they are being developed. However, once they are developed, all that is needed is to upgrade them and train people. We budgeted for IFMIS in the last financial year. Being a Member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee in the previous year, I remember we also budgeted for them again. This is a supplementary budgetary allocation requirement for IFMIS. Many questions could be raised about how the IFMIS programme is being run. Why are we allocating so much money to IFMIS when, indeed, we have a lot of other areas that deserve funds or urgently need money that can do much more for Kenyans?"
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