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    "id": 643139,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "even as I agree with it, the architecture of our Constitution advocates for openness and accountability in the use of public funds. It is time that allocations such as National Social Safety Net which we are giving about Kshs14 billion, will be able to show a formula about how each of the counties and sub-counties are benefitting. More importantly, if you look at the Division of Revenue Bill, every year we have allocated a sum of about Kshs5 billion. It was the case last year for contingencies. In the interest of openness, accountability and prudence in the use of public funds, we have a duty as a House to demand from the Executive to be telling us yearly how the allocations of the contingency funds are being utilised. This goes across to all the votes that we are passing here, whether it is in the itemised Budget estimates or in the Division of Revenue Bill because if we continue this way Chair, we are still sticking to the old opaque ways of doing things when the architecture of our Constitution, especially with regard to the use of public finance calls for openness and accountability in how every shilling is spent."
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