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    "id": 742436,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
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    "content": "Under the development expenditure, the bulk of the additional funds, which amounts to Kshs32.5 billion, relates to increment in donor funding. This House will recall that one of the major reasons for the reductions of the First Supplementary was due to reduction in donor funds. This now has been taken care of substantially. We therefore wish to reverse the situation. We have received significant funds particularly from the World Bank. We therefore wish to increase Kshs9.6 billion to the State Department for Energy to undertake power transmission and distribution projects. We wish to recommend an increase of Kshs8.3 billion for the State Department for Water Services to develop dams and water supply projects. We wish to propose an increase of Kshs7 billion for the State Department for Infrastructure, road construction including, those from Ukambani. Members of the public will be pleased to hear that we are giving the Kibwezi-Kitui Road Kshs4.2 billion out of the Kshs7 billion—the lion share of the amount—and the Nairobi Outer Ring Road Kshs2 billion. We wish to propose an increase of Kshs2.4 billion for the State Department for Vocational and Technical Training for equipping 134 training institutes. We held quite a number of meetings as is required by common sense and by the law. We met the National Treasury last week and Monday this week. Further to those meetings, we wish to allocate Kshs74.5 million to settle outstanding obligations. These are pending salaries from former employees of Pan Paper, and an additional Kshs9 million for the youth talent activities at Kenyatta University. No amount is too small to bring to this House. So we are seeking an increase of Kshs9 million for these activities at KU. After engaging colleagues in other committees, we wish to propose the reallocation of Kshs40 million under the State Department for Interior so as to enhance allocations to security operations. With respect to health, we wish to propose a reallocation of Kshs343 million under the department of health so as to provide allocations for development of Burns Unit in the KNH. In the past four financial years, the National Assembly has been receiving two supplementary budgets annually. The contents of these budgets have most of the times included changes that do not always meet the threshold as provided for in the relevant laws and allocations for pending bills. This will tend to erode the reforms that have so far been achieved in ensuring good budgeting process. Therefore, we need to review all pending bills and ensure that they get adequate funding at the beginning of each year. It is my pleasure to present these figures to this House. It is even my greater pleasure to request my good friend and colleague the Member for the great people of Mandera East, Hon. Farah, to kindly second this Motion. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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