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    "id": 667919,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nyamweya",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Manson Oyongo Nyamweya",
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    "content": "I come from a place which has Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). I am told that there will be money in the next Budget. We do not know whether this money was properly used. How do we, as the National Assembly, agree to pass expenditure where people have used the money? We do not know whether the due process on procurement was followed. We also do not know how the money was utilised but we are being told, as the National Assembly, that we have come to the end of the year and so we need to pass the Supplementary Budget. We have an oversight role. Our role is to interrogate how this money has been used. It is not a must that we approve this Supplementary Budget. This can remain as a pending bill which has not been accounted for. The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), where I am a Member, will get a chance to scrutinise how those people spend money without approval. Recently, the Governor of Garissa was in court. He was being accused of spending money which was not in the budget. The National Treasury allows ministries to spend money without a budget. As the National Assembly, we are being used to pass this and make it legal, that all has been done well. I urge my colleagues to reject this so that PAC will have a chance to scrutinise this expenditure, to see how this money was used so that civil servants can wake up. It is not an emergency. The reasons given - and they were plain - were that we need the funds to offset the national debt and to pay pensioners. We know how much they are paid. That money is there. Another person says that it is a national charge so we have to pay it first. I urge Members to reject this so that it is properly scrutinised. That will not stop the Government from running and it will not stop anything from happening. We will give a chance to Parliament to scrutinise how the Ministry spent money without, first and foremost, getting approval from the National Assembly. With those few remarks, I urge my colleagues to reject this Motion so as to get an opportunity to scrutinise how the Ministry spent the money."
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