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    "id": 914280,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/914280/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13331,
        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "We have done our best as a budget-making House. All the other organs of the country must appreciate and respect the role of the National Assembly in the budget-making process. The Constitution was explicitly clear. It did not contemplate that any other busy-body will purport to interfere with the role of the National Assembly in the budget-making process. This Budget will only be important or useful to the people of Kenya if the National Treasury is able to disburse funds in a timely manner. When you listen to Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) many times, their main complaint is that funds come too late towards the end of the financial year and they are unable to utilise them. There are pending bills simply because the National Treasury does not release funds in good time. We hope that lessons have been learnt this time round and the National Treasury, working together with other agents, will make all efforts to make sure that funds reach the relevant line ministries and budget lines to enable them undertake programmes we have put in this Budget for the benefit of the people of Kenya. 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."
}