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    "id": 742477,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. S.S. Ahmed",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": "There are issues on the Supplementary Budget that I still raise concerns on. We have our soldiers in Somalia. There is so much concern that we have one item for the armed forces. We were not able to look at that in great detail because of certain confidentialities. That is where some of these problems are occurring. We have Armed Personnel Carriers (APCs) which was brought in from China which can be pierced by a 35 millimetre bullet and not even an AK47 bullet. We have already lost 17 of our people. The ministries also should realise that when they bring the budget to us, we will look at them very carefully. The other day, the Departmental Committee on Health asked for Kshs343 million to be transferred to the Burns Unit from the slum project of the containers. You know the medical containers are still lying in Mombasa. So, they had put aside some money to have that implemented and it has not been implemented. It makes good sense to have that money transferred. However, the question is that we must make something out of the money that we have lost presently on the containers. I hasten to add that we did approve the Kshs343 million for the Burns Unit. We were initially told by the Departmental Committee on Health that the Government had to put up 15 per cent of Kshs2.1 billion. When the Chair and Members asked more detailed questions, it turned to be Kshs2.9 billion. I am quite aware. I have been in the health sector for some time. It appears that the figure shot up from Kshs2.1 billion to Kshs2.9 billion. We do not know how the Executive decided and it forced the Chair to call the Executive. He was given a figure of Kshs2.1 billion, but at the last minute he was given one of Kshs2.9 billion. Whatever it is, we will not take it sitting down. Even the Chair said that we will not approve it until the CS makes a commitment. Therefore, we have given them Kshs343 million. We expect the ministry not to use a single cent of that money for anything else other than the Burns Unit. I spent a lot of time in health management. We have really been fighting for a Burns 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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