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    "id": 619418,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyamweya",
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        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "only Kshs3 billion. That money was increased by Kshs13 billion. They were surviving on the Kshs3 billion budget. So, we need to re-examine our role as the National Assembly. As we prepare the next Budget, we should ensure that ministries confirm to this House that they have the ability and have put in place structures to use the funds. If we do not do that we will allocate money to various ministries and it will not be spent. Therefore, it will be allocated elsewhere, or if it is spent it will be spent wrongly. As the National Assembly, we need to operate above board when scrutinising the Budget. Fortunately, we have budget committees in all the ministries. The chairs of these committees need to be more active and more involved. They must ensure that they scrutinise the Budget before it is presented to us. If it is on agriculture, they have to confirm that the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries wants that money and they know exactly where it is going. Do they have a procurement plan? Do they have the correct manpower? If it is roads and infrastructure, the Ministry needs to be very clear from the word go. Corruption will go on unless we, as Parliament, come together to assist the country. There are two issues here; either the money is not properly spent because there is no ability to audit it or it is not spent because there is no ability to spend. As a Parliament, we have a bigger role to play. As much as you can blame the people outside there that they are stealing this money, it is us who allocate them. As we move on, let us be more vigilant as the National Assembly so that from the first stage of making the Budget, we are able to know what is happening in the ministries. With those few remarks, I support. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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