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    "content": "As I said, the proposed allocation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Trade is Kshs18.2billion against a resource requirement of Kshs39billion. That is not even half of the resources required. This gap is huge and may affect operations in our foreign missions abroad. We just passed a Motion containing names of seven nominees this afternoon who are destined to our foreign missions abroad. If we do not resource them efficiently, it will not be possible for them to achieve the mandate of representing our country abroad. In view of the limited resources against many wants, my Committee is optimistic that the Ministry will be considered for additional resources either in this Budget or in the Supplementary Budgets. We highlighted this as we presented some requests from the Ministry. These are some of the requests that the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee said that he had received when he was moving the Motion. Posting and recall of officers in missions abroad, replacement of protocol vehicles and foreign exchange risk assumption facility need to be funded. As a Committee, we felt that there are some very critical activities and duties of this Ministry that were not funded because of Budget constraints."
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