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    "id": 88545,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "their reports are adopted. It is actually a legal requirement for the Ministry to present a Treasury memorandum. We should not beg for these things. The Ministry has to work. We have a young Minister in this Ministry and we expect things to change. We do not want it to be business as usual. So, Mr. Minister, we will give you money, but we want you to change your attitude. This is a new Kenya. So, change your attitude and the way your Ministry has been doing business. If it is a question about the technocrats in your Ministry ageing, please, relieve them. Let them go and rest. We have young people who are probably more aggressive. I wish I could be there, but right now I cannot. However, I am sure there are very many Mbadis out there who can take that position. The other thing concerns the auditing system in this country. Here, we still over- emphasize on the financial audit. To me, this is post-mortem and it does not address the real issue. Many countries have now adopted value for money audit. I think this is very important because by merely showing how efficiently you have spend the money does not ensure effectiveness which dictates that the objective for which you wanted to spend has been met. If the money has been spent to put up dispensaries, we need to know how many people those dispensaries are serving. That question should be asked. Lastly, I wanted to comment on the participation in the budget-making process of the Ministries. There appears to be a disconnect between the Ministries’ strategic plans and the monies that we vote in this House. To me, it appears as if we just do what we call incremental budgeting where. For example, last year, the Ministry of Livestock Development was given this amount, and this year we, give them five per cent more. We do not even check what we want to achieve with the expenditure. I think we need to move more towards programme-based budgeting as opposed to incremental budgeting. I will support this Bill, but with a heavy heart because the Ministry is co- operating less. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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