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    "id": 562719,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/562719/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Anyango",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 130,
        "legal_name": "Dalmas Anyango Otieno",
        "slug": "dalmas-otieno"
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    "content": "The clause we put there says, “if a need arises.” Needs cannot be worth Kshs133 billion. What has happened is that the Government leaves what was budgeted for during the financial year, creates new expenditure avenues in the course of the financial year, comes here to claim those new needs arose and they want to circumvent parliamentary approval and hammer it in the last four days as an emergency by forcing loyal Members of the House to approve. I am cautioning that this is a bad precedent which if we let pass, even before the next financial year is halfway, they will have created new needs. Why am I talking of “new needs”? These are things I know. I am talking of “new needs” on projects of interest to particular individuals. The projects are brought in during the financial year, given emergency and urgency status to exploit this Article and then expenditure is commenced and tenders are awarded for those projects of particular interest to particular people. The projects which were submitted to and approved by Parliament are ignored while the absorption rate lags by 40 per cent. They want to bulldoze us here to accept special interest projects on which particular individuals have interest. I am objecting because we must not allow the practice in our financial management where priority in development is on the basis of who benefits from which project and not on the basis of what is in the interest of the whole country and which has been publicly presented before the House and approved for one financial year. You cannot subvert it and create new projects that become priority and you want to exploit this Article in the Constitution. Thank you."
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