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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Nuh",
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        "legal_name": "Nuh Nassir Abdi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with a very heavy heart, I want to oppose this Motion. First of all, I wish for a time in this Parliament when we will have no submission of Supplementary Estimates because of our planning system. We have made it a habit year in, year out, because of poor planning and poor management, to come and change the budgets that we passed in June just because we are not sticking to the timelines. I know we have shortages and shortfalls of Budget, but one thing I would want to say is that, we would like to have a time when the Minister for Finance would come to this Parliament and say: “We have realized extra revenues and we would want to allocate these monies to other development projects in this country”. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issues of drought and other emerging issues were things which were well known within this Government even before the Supplementary Estimates were thought of. The Prime Minister himself stood in this House and anticipated that because of the weather focus by Meteorological Department, there would be drought. Why would we have to wait until March for us to be told that we need to allocate some extra Kshs5.5 billion towards drought? One pertinent issue is that, if the recommendations and resolutions by this House are to be taken seriously, then we would think of a reason why we should come and discuss budget issues and motions that are brought by the Ministry of Finance. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is Kshs5.1 billion accruing for the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) since 2006/2007, 2007/2008, 2008/2009, 2009/2010 and even 2010/2011. I know the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance says that he has allocated some extra Kshs5.4 billion towards ESP. There are monies owed to CDF; commitments that were made by this Government, commitments which are in raw form because the CDF is not supposed to be anything less than 2.5 per cent of the revenue. Monies have been kept in Treasury for the last many years. As a committee, we went extra lengths discussing with Treasury the way for them to release this money and they promised that come March, in the Supplementary Estimates, all monies that are due for CDF, the Kshs5.1 billion, would be released. Besides, we moved a Motion in this House and passed a resolution that the Supplementary Estimates must contain – because it is in law – the Kshs5.1 billion accrued for CDF but there is nothing. There is only Kshs177 million which the Ministry of Finance thinks is due to CDF. They want this House to easily pass the Motions they bring without taking its recommendations seriously. I wish the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance withdraws this Motion and goes to draw a Motion that is in line with the Motions and resolutions that we passed in this House, including submitting the Kshs1.5 billion for the CDF."
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