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    "id": 797467,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Supplementary Appropriation (No.2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.15 of 2018) be now read a Second Time. I take this opportunity to thank all the Members, through their respective committees, for the immense work they put in within a very short time for us to be able to finish these reports and prepare this Bill. Without saying much, we tabled the Report before this House last week on Thursday and Members were gracious enough to pass the Bill in a record time of less than 15 minutes. The Committee has observed that some of the expenditures as proposed in the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, 2018, do not meet the criteria of Article 223 of our Constitution. As we have pointed out in our Report, the Committee is deeply concerned with the application of this Article on areas that are not of emergency or unforeseen nature in any way. This is particularly with regard to land compensation for Ruaraka High School and Drive-Inn Primary School as well as allocation for purchase of CT Scanners in the Ministry of Health. It is worth noting that Article 223 of the Constitution explicitly provides for only emergency and unforeseen circumstances for the application of this Article. We have observed, with a lot of concern that the National Treasury continues to use this Article to cater for payments that are not of emergency or unforeseen nature in any manner. Secondly, the Committee notes with concern that development spending is always compromised in every financial year and only a portion of the original budgeted sum actually ends up being utilised for development purposes. Although it is indicated that the development budget cuts are due to lower absorption, it is a fact that drastic and broad-based cuts on Development Expenditure is a recurring phenomenon in almost every budget year."
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