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    "id": 909911,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "I know there have been concerns why we are having two Supplementary Estimates. It may look like a bad practice. Perhaps in our days, we had more latitude in terms of the timing you needed to bring it here. Unfortunately, in the 2010 Constitution, it was made mandatory in what was viewed as good order that any expenditure incurred outside the budget must be brought to the House for ratification within two months from the time the first expenditure is withdrawn. This means if you think there was budget for one budget item which was not there, immediately you make the first withdrawal within two months, you must bring it here. Potentially, you could even have 10 supplementary budgets being brought if 10 such withdrawals take place. Perhaps it is something that we might need to look at in future. Even as we relook at those laws, we know the 2010 Constitution was being done against a background of mistrust and hence the Government must have been constrained. This means that you end up with lots of bureaucracy and things being done just because you do not trust people you give power. We may need to look at the rationality of some of these things in terms of whether it should be every two months or it should be expenditure within a quarter or within the first half of the year. That anything incurred should be ratified at the end of the six months so that we end up with some kind of predictability in terms of when Parliament is involved in this ratification. This is while also not letting the National Treasury gets away with it in terms of spending and taking so long to have ratification which creates uncertainty with them as is the case now with the vehicles purchased by the Commission which notes in their wisdom that every commissioner must get a new vehicle. They are new in office and assumed that Parliament will ratify it anyway as a matter of course. The committees have seen that there was no wisdom in that kind of thinking hence somebody will have to take responsibility within the provisions of the law."
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