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    "id": 663804,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/663804/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nooru",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2238,
        "legal_name": "Adan Mohamed Nooru",
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    "content": "On the other hand, we appropriate Budget every year but the release of the money is an issue. The National Treasury keeps on bringing Supplementary Budgets. Most of the ministries, departments and State departments have been having backlog of pending bills. When the Budget is given to the ministries, they make commitments on the basis that they have been given a go ahead by the National Treasury through Appropriation Bill to implement some programmes. Some of them go into contractual obligations and then in the middle, the National Treasury withdraws that fund. This leaves the Government with a lot of debts. The Government is either taken to courts because of breaching contracts or given certificates which are to be paid earning interests. So, the Government keeps on paying double of what they are supposed to pay implementing these programmes. We need to avoid those circumstances. If we cannot meet these obligations, then there is no need to have a Budget of trillions of shillings. We must minimise and see what is available so that we can live within our means, rather than give people a lot of hopes and then the pending bills keep on accumulating year after year in every department and ministry."
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