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    "id": 863794,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Baringo CWR, KANU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladwell Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Gladwell Jesire Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "I have heard many of my colleagues speaking and one of the things that is very clear and is coming from everyone is that there is a lot of uncertainty on issues of expenditure or spending of money. For sure, many have talked of pending bills. I was wondering because every year, we have been doing budgetary allocations. Parliament accepts requests from ministries, we approve them and allocate money. However, every year, we hear of issues of pending bills and wonder what happens along the way. The fact remains that the work of the ministry is normally dynamic, but there are huge pending bills that are not in line with the budget and the expenditure that they gave us as a House. So, pending bills is what is taking us back because when we get to the next financial year, instead of budgeting forward, we start budgeting backwards to pay the pending bills. It is, therefore, important for the ministries to be disciplined and stick to what they ask for. They should not stray and spend money on other things that were not in their budget."
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