Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 589027,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/589027/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 22,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13131,
        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
        "slug": "johnson-arthur-sakaja"
    },
    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Indeed, the issues that have been raised are of great concern to us all. I concur with Members on some of the sentiments. This is a matter we also discussed in the House Business Committee (HBC). I urge our Members that in as much as we are affected, we should look beyond ourselves because there could be other agencies of State that are really affected. This is a matter of Budget implementation. This House has committees that oversee the National Treasury. If it is a matter of revenue collection, we have a committee that oversees the KRA. For instance, it is good for us to understand why the Budget and Appropriations Committee has not summoned the CS of the National Treasury to explain the problem, because it is a Budget implementation problem. If it is a problem of revenue collection, the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade should summon the KRA. For us to now make it a matter which we want to debate on the Floor while we have committees in this House that are charged with the mandate of making sure that Budget implementation is done, is to play in different theatres. Unless we have no confidence in the Budget and Appropriations Committee, I urge you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, in your determination, to find that this matter must be expeditiously dealt with by the relevant committee, which is the Budget and Appropriations Committee, instead of us splitting hairs. You saw the other day a newspaper was saying that MPs are broke and some people were laughing. Let us not go that route. Let us look at it objectively and ask the Budget and Appropriations Committee, within this week, probably today or tomorrow, to summon the CS, the PS and the KRA to tell us why Budget implementation is not happening as it should. This House has appropriated funds for use by institutions and different agencies of Government. Let us not make it an issue that it is not."
}