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    "id": 654007,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Katoo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 199,
        "legal_name": "Judah Katoo Ole-Metito",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute in support of this Motion as amended. I would like to give a few highlights on the Supplementary Budget. As my colleagues have said, it rearranges some sectors of the entire Vote especially the ones purported to have shortfalls. The Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has missed its targets in this quarter. They reported that they missed about Kshs100 million. That is not a small shortfall. Sometimes KRA is overambitious in its targets and if not, the systems of revenue collection need to be relooked into to identify the loopholes. Some of the loopholes are at the county levels because counties collect revenue, but it goes unaccounted for. The KRA should tighten its belts in terms of accounting for revenue collected in the counties. Looking at the Supplementary Estimates, it is reported that the national Government CDF has arrears for the 2014/2015 Financial Year amounting to Kshs4.9 billion. These arrears should have been factored in the Supplementary Budget rather than postponing them to the next financial year. By the end of this year, they will have shot up. These are some of the shortcomings that we are experiencing as a result of not having a fully functional Budget and Appropriations Committee. We all know that this Supplementary Budget was prepared by the Liaison Committee. If we had a fully operational Budget and Appropriations Committee, the Kshs4.9 billion that has been in arrears for the last two financial years would have been included in this Supplementary Budget rather than burdening the Exchequer in the next financial year by budgeting for huge sums of money. These arrears belong to the CDF. You will first of all put Kshs4.9 billion as a first charge. That is not little money. Let us leave it the way it is, but that is a concern and an observation."
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