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    "id": 625904,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Mahamud",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 373,
        "legal_name": "Mohammed Maalim Mahamud",
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    "content": "The BPS is just the word “policy”. What we have been given so far is only guidelines and how the Government expects to fund the Budget for the Financial Year 2016/2017. It actually shows the programmes in various State Departments and agencies, but you will see that the targeted revenue for this year is Kshs1.5 trillion as opposed to Kshs1.36 trillion last year. It is a very marginal increase as you can see. It has been mentioned in the Report of the Committee that the revenue projections have not been met. In fact, so far, in the Mid-Term, by December there was a drop from the targeted figure by 11.52 per cent. That means that at the end of June, we will be off target by about 22 per cent. Our National Treasury is sometimes too ambitious in its Budget proposals. When you make proposals and programmes are identified for funding and the money is not realised in the end, it leaves a lot of gaps in terms of project implementation. From the summaries of the various Ministries, you will realise that there is no increment in absolute terms from the Budget for 2015/2016 and 2016/2017 Financial Years. There is very little increment. It means you cannot fund new projects. Of course, there is a lot of clamour for starting new projects. Many areas have had no projects funded for a long time although we have devolution and devolved governments are trying to do their best. But in terms of major projects, 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."
}