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    "id": 868777,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/868777/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "under the Act, the amendment proposes that the PBO also undertakes monitoring and evaluation of Government programmes and projects to inform the legislative budget and economic analysis, and produce the Budget Options Paper as a basis. Under the Constitution of Kenya 2010, the Legislature, more so the National Assembly, has been given the power of budget-making. That is why the CS will introduce the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) by the end of this week. We do not want Parliament to be used as a rubberstamp. Parliament, in appropriating money to both levels of the Government, must have powers to monitor and evaluate Government programmes and projects and bring back that report to its committees and the House at large. That is why the PBO, a key department of the Legislature, is being given extra powers in that amendment, so that they can prepare what will be called the Budget Option Paper as a basis for evaluating the BPS and the annual estimates, review the county fiscal strategy papers and reports of the Controller of Budget. The powers we want to give to the PBO is to analyse the report of the Controller of Budget, the debt level and the National Debt Paper that the Cabinet Secretary of the National Treasury submits to Parliament. The PBO will analyse strategy papers that county governments use, many other sectors and even the BPS, so that Parliament is well informed of the functions that the Constitution has given it as a budget-making House."
}