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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Manje",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Wathigo Manje",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me a chance to add my voice to this debate and support Hon. Jakoyo for coming up with the proposal. Let us give them time to go through the Supplementary Budget to check whether there are other issues that we can change. I thought the words “Supplementary Budget” mean a budget that will enable the Government to complete what it had not done throughout the year. Introducing some aspect in between, like allocations to the Senate is deviating from the real essence of a Supplementary Budget. The kitty that is being introduced into the Supplementary Budget by the Senate had been here before. I remember there is a time Kshs1 billion was put in the Budget and we removed it but it has now been re-introduced in the Supplementary Budget. This is not correct. It is good you give him a chance so that we can scrutinise this Supplementary Budget to see whether there is some money that has been allocated to units like devolved units. It is very shameful that our governors are spending a lot of money, which was supposed to go and assist people in the counties, on the Council of Governors (CoG) Secretariat. For example, Turkana County is spending about Kshs58 million on luxurious undertakings in the city. It is shameful. I also realise that the counties that are generally poor are the ones using money in the wrong way. For example, Kajiado County, which is my county, is spending about Kshs18 million to support the CoG 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."
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