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    "id": 554847,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ogalo",
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        "legal_name": "George Oner Ogalo",
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    "content": "I rise to support the Motion as amended. Hon. Nyokabi will get another chance when we start debating another Motion. I note the work that has been done by The Budget and Appropriations Committee. From the outset, I want to start with the process the National Assembly is going though in handling the Budget. Article 221 of the Constitution is very clear that the National Treasury will submit Estimates to this House and this House will consider those Estimates through The Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Departmental Committees. The Constitution says “the Estimates.” The Constitution does not say Estimates segmented into sectors where you cannot move resources between segments. The Constitution does not say ceilings that the National Assembly has no control over. Either we agree that the current Constitution gives the power of budgeting to Parliament or it does not. If it gives, then this House must have leeway and capacity to redirect how those sectors are created, what ceilings are given to those sectors and the overall outlook of that Budget. That is when the National Assembly is doing budgeting. However, the charade we are taken through--- I call it “charade” because we are given this Budget for a very short while, probably intentionally, and we have to rush through it, with segments and ceilings already created elsewhere. All we do is move little monies here and there within those segments. Somebody has taken Parliament and divided it into groups and put them in boxes to look at small amounts of money in those boxes and move funds within them. We are being told: “You cannot cross to this other sector. You do not change the ceilings.” I do not know where these ceilings are set. Progressively, this House must begin to take care of its mandate as a budgeting House."
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