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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Langat",
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        "legal_name": "Benjamin Kipkirui Langat",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to second the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the further amendments to the Budget Report. When you look at proposals under (ii), we are proposing to delete and replace the figures which are already on Page 34 and onwards. After the Report was discussed and tabled in the House, we had further consultations with the National Treasury on what we had earlier proposed in terms of what we had carried in the Budget and Appropriations Report. After the Report was taken to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, we discovered that there were some items we had proposed reductions that were touching on the donor funding and we were informed that if we were to touch those figures, then the donors will reduce their funding to the same level we were reducing the allocation to those Votes. We agreed to reduce the reductions in some Votes, so that we can cater for the ones which were reduced on the donor funding. The figures are reducing from what we had provided in the Budget report because of the donor funding which we had to return to where it came from. Under proposals (vi), we had provided for Kshs1.5 billion, so that we defray the loan that has accrued to the Lake Basin Development Authority (LBDA). We were informed and there is a report by the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources that there is a mall which was constructed by the LBDA using a loan. The loan has fallen due to be paid and after the discussions, we are told that the National Treasury needed to relook at the modalities of repaying the same or restructuring the loan. We agreed to reduce by half pending those negotiations that the National Treasury and the management of the LBDA will have. On the programme on Tourism Development Promotion, it reflects the reductions which were occasioned by the donor funds which we had deducted. We are just reflecting the reductions under those areas. On (iii), we had proposed reductions on the National Treasury Vote. After a critical look, we were informed of some items such as rehabilitation and expansion of Herufi Data Centre that we had proposed to reduce by Kshs220 million, but after discussions, we agreed to reduce the reduction to Kshs120 million because some works are ongoing and our reduction would have affected them. This is the same with the other items under the National Treasury. This is further information we received from the National Treasury. I second and request the House to support."
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