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    "id": 742497,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Gikaria",
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to support the Second Supplementary Budget. As the Chair made it very clear, it emerges out of the effects of drought and the high cost of living. Some of these things drove the BAC to sit down and address them. At the same time, we also need to be very careful. I come from a county where they go against the PFM Act and bring up to six supplementary budgets, to a point where they erode everything that the good people of Nakuru County had suggested and given their views on. When you have a budget that erodes sense and purpose, it beats logic. However, in this one, I can say that there has been a huge improvement in the budget-making process. The Budget needs to address over 95 per cent of the issues affecting us so that we do not have many more issues being raised in the Supplementary Budget. I believe we have a good reason for this particular one. Secondly, I do not know how the Budget and Appropriations Committee conducts its visits. From what I have heard from my lovely sister Millie, it is like the Committee visited Mbita. I have never seen the Budget and Appropriations Committee in Nakuru! I do not know 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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