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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. In contributing to this Motion on Supplementary Budget Estimates II, I want to start by saying that it is now becoming a tradition by the Treasury to always prepare two supplementary budgets every financial year. This practice begun in 2015/2016 and we thought it was a one off thing. But now, this is the third year and it has become a tradition. It is important to remind the Treasury that a lot of changes to our Budget is disorganising economic stability of this country and it is not very good going forward, for our economic planning. What is the essence of Article 223 of the Constitution? The people of Kenya made a provision to allow the Government through the National Treasury but with the authority from the National Treasury to spend money and seek Parliament’s approval after spending within two months. This House will recall that before the Constitution 2010, Supplementary Budget used to be prepared to allow for additional funding to Government ministries and departments but with this Constitution, the whole budget-making process changed. Now the ministries can spend some specific amounts where the amount provided for that purpose under the Appropriations Act is not sufficient, or a need has arisen for the expenditure for a purpose for which no amount has been The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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