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    "id": 878137,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Halake",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13184,
        "legal_name": "Abshiro Soka Halake",
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    "content": "what are we doing? Is our budgeting process part of the problem of grand corruption? We literally allocate to the corruption downstream at the kutenda stage of it. I hope that this House will look out for these things. It will be sad if the budgeting process becomes part of the corruption facilitation process. We need to look at this and make sure that as people who oversight, we are not part of the problem. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I listened to the Chairperson talk about the role of county governments in the BPS, it is not clear how county governments will implement the Big Four Agenda. This is because the county governments’ development budgets have been reducing. Sometimes, there is also the transfer of funds between development and recurrent expenditure. There is also delayed disbursement that causes absorption problems. Therefore, I hope that through this process, we will not come up with duplications that will become part of the problem that we have discussed the whole afternoon. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have a bit of a problem with the budget ceilings. However, that said, we have not had enough time, as people who are interested in finances, to interrogate the budget ceilings. Sen. Wetangula has spoken to the fact the national Government, especially in the sectors that have been devolved, is still getting a lion share at the expense of the devolved units. Later on, we start calling the devolved units a bad name and killing them by asking what they have done when we have not given any funds. We need to look at these kinds of things whereby then it does not become a strategic plan or a game plan for killing devolution. Looking at the budget for the national Government amounting to Kshs1.766 trillion and the reduction in the amounts of the shared revenue both in terms of the actual sums as well as the percentages as shared by the Chairperson, it was at 19 per cent, then it kept going down and we are now at four per cent as percentage of the GDP. Therefore, that should worry us."
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