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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Abdi",
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        "legal_name": "Yusuf Hassan Abdi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I would like to reluctantly support this Supplementary Budget. I have absolutely no problem with the need to allocate funds to unforeseen or absolutely necessary needs of the country. However, using these ways to bring in supplementary budgets that are not urgent, as the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee has said, should not be welcome in this House. These are not small figures. They are huge amounts running into billions. We seem to have a massive overspending problem that requires us to expressly pass the Supplementary Budget, which does not allow room for the Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee to scrutinise. This is worrying. Whatever the reasons, this House must be vigilant to interrogate the National Treasury to ensure that the expenditures were important, necessary and whether they have been competently and effectively utilised for the development of our country. I would also like to quickly comment about a comment made by a member on the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). We should not be using this House to demonise, degrade and destroy constitutional institutions. The Hon. Member should have given an opportunity to the IEBC because it is not represented in this House. This is a House which has been endorsed and approved by the IEBC, as one of our national institutions. I expect Hon. Chris Wamalwa to be careful and avoid verbal diarrhoea next time. He was endorsed by the IEBC. If he thinks the IEBC is corrupt, he should do an honour to this House and resign. He should not use this House to demonise and destroy our national institutions. 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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