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    "id": 561214,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
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    "content": "2014/2015 Financial Year to Kshs1,232.9 billion. The approval of the Second Supplementary Estimates by this House will effectively increase the overall discretionary expenditure to Kshs1,426.7 billion. A review of the expenditure proposals shows that the Government proposes to change the allocations for a number of spending agencies. Some of the substantial increments include Kshs138 billion to the State Department for Transport for the construction of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) and airport infrastructure and Kshs13.5 billion to the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum for geothermal generation and electricity submission. There is also Kshs12.7 billion grants to the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA), the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) and the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) under the State Department for Infrastructure. There is Kshs11 billion for security operations, Kshs4.9 billion for the NYS, Kshs4.2 billion for the National Treasury for emergency shareholder, a loan to the Kenya Airways and Kshs8 billion to the State Department for Agriculture for subsidy of Di-Ammonium Phosphate (DAP) fertilizer, purchase of maize stock and for the National Irrigation Board. Allow me to make one or two comments about this loan to the Kenya Airways which is our national carrier. Before the collapse of the East African Airways (EAA) in 1977, it was led by Chief Fundikira of Tanzania. It was then handed over to the iconic Eliud Mathu, the first African Member of the LEGCO, as it then was in 1948. He became the first Chairman of the Kenya airways and gave very strong leadership to our national carrier. We owe a great debt of gratitude to President Moi because he took a very bold decision to have the debts at that time written off upon the request of the then Chairman of the Kenya Airways, the late brilliant mind, great Economist and entrepreneur, Mr. Phillip Ndegwa. Under the leadership of President Moi, the carrier became what it is today and many others have contributed enormously to the Kenya airways. Kenya Airways is going through turbulent times. I have talked to the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade and the Chairperson of the Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing to find it necessary to do some investigations as to what is going on with our national carrier. We need Kenya Airways back. Some of the substantial reductions include Kshs14.4 billion under the State Department for Education for the laptop programme, Kshs9.5 billion under the National Treasury for defined contributory pension scheme, Kshs3 billion under the National Treasury for the Equalization Fund, Kshs1.7 billion under the Ministry of Industrialisation and Enterprise Development for special economic zones and Kshs2.5 billion under the Judiciary for Development Expenditure. Despite the overall expenditure increment, the Second Supplementary Budget has not provided information on how these expenditures will be funded. This is a matter of no small concern to my Committee. This raises concerns of whether revenues are expected to over- perform in the last few days of the year or whether the Government intends to increase borrowing. With regard to whether we have adhered to the legal framework, Article 223(5) of the Constitution limits supplementary appropriation in a given financial year to not more than 10 per cent of the approved budget for that year except if Parliament has approved a higher percentage. The total Supplementary Appropriation for the 2014/2015 Financial Year amounts to an additional expenditure of Kshs244.2 billion, which is a 15 per cent increment from the approved 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."
}