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    "id": 901931,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/901931/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, it is disturbing that we are getting Supplementary Estimates II from the National Treasury at this time. We should express our disgust - not displeasure - at what the National Treasury is trying to do. We have given a serious indication to the Treasury that our dealing with the Budget Estimates for the 2019/2020 Financial Year will not be business as usual because this country is overburdened in terms of taxation as well as credit and debt levels. Probably, the National Treasury is trying to distract us from focusing on the Financial Estimates for 2019/2020. Hon. Speaker, I want to make a personal request to you and the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I believe that these Supplementary Estimates have been tabled here in line with Article 223 of the Constitution. If that is the case, that Article says that, subject to clauses 2 to 4, the national Government may spend money that has not been appropriated if the amount appropriated is not enough, and if money has been withdrawn from the Contingencies Fund. The approval of Parliament for any spending under this Article shall be sought within two months after the first withdrawal of the money. My understanding is that this is money that has been spent. Therefore, there is no hurry in dealing with these Supplementary Estimates. Let us focus on the Annual Budget Estimates. Let us keep these Supplementary Estimates pending because what the law requires is for the National Treasury to seek Parliament’s approval. As to when we give that approval, the House can decide. We can finish with the Budget Estimates first and give the approval even in July. This is because Supplementary Estimates have become a way through which the National Treasury introduces expenditures that sometimes are fictitious. Remember last time we rejected an allocation for the Ruaraka land in Supplementary Estimates. I do not know what the National Treasury has done. Probably, that is what the 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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