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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. F.K. Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Supplementary Budget Bill. My stand is very clear. Something somewhere is not correct. The 2015/2016 Financial Year has come to the end and yet, we see budget requests from various spending units. I wonder what is happening. People are not clear on what they need for one financial year. One financial year is 12 months. It looks like the people who have been given the responsibility to prepare the budget do not do that right. In the last three years, we have seen this country coming up. In one financial year, we have more than three supplementary budgets. To me, that is not very good for a country that is moving forward. We have looked at the requests from various areas. We reluctantly pass those from the departments of agriculture, livestock and fisheries. We have given only Kshs400 million, which may not be enough. I am saying this because we have a very huge project at the Coast – the Galana Project. It needs a lot of funds. Given what I have seen, this may not be enough. That means somebody somewhere did not do a good job. Speaking on the same, a department or ministry prepares a budget which goes to the National Treasury. Without involving the requesting ministry, the figures are reduced. This habit should stop because, if the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives has sat down and given its figures, those are the figures that are required. I am not wrong because I have said this many times, including last year. The National Treasury officials reduce the figures arbitrarily 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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