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    "id": 654005,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "spent? I would have expected a situation where the Supplementary Estimates removes money allocated to the Equalisation Fund from the Budget, so that at the end of the year, we only achieve a zero implementation rate. That does not help us. I keep talking about transferring programmes from one Ministry to another. We are now in April and you want a programme which had been planned to be implemented by the Office of the President (OP) transferred to the Ministry of Water and Irrigation. By the time you do the paper work to move the money and start preparing for implementation, the year will be gone. At the end of the year, we will register absorption rates of about 50 per cent instead of 100 per cent because basic principles in budgeting were not adhered to. If I had more time, I would have gone through all the items. As we move forward, Members of Parliament should take the budget-making process more seriously than we are doing now so that we can help this country to achieve some of her dreams. Unless these dreams are supported by effective budgeting process, they will remain dreams. With those few remarks, Thank you for giving me the opportunity."
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