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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Musyimi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for raising that matter. It is true that we had to re-arrange our schedules rather fast. We were the second Departmental Committee to present our Budget Scrutiny Report. Nonetheless, the Minister stands forgiven. I feel honoured to present to this House my Departmental Committee’s findings on the scrutiny of the Annual Estimates of Vote 36, Ministry of Lands, for the financial year 2010/2011, pursuant to the Standing Orders of this House. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in executing our mandate, our Committee overseas various Ministries, namely; the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, Vote 20; Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources, Vote 21; Ministry of Lands, Vote 36 and Ministry of Forestry and Wildlife, Vote 55. As you rightly pointed out, pursuant to our Standing Orders, we held our meeting with this Ministry in June, 2010. In that meeting, we considered the following documents: Vision 2030, the Medium-Term Plans, Printed Estimates for the current financial year, the Budget Speech, the Budget Outlook Paper, the Budget Strategy Paper, and the Budget Policy Paper. We were honoured to have in our presence the Minister himself, together with the Permanent Secretary, the Commissioner of Lands and other senior officials of his Ministry. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to concur with the Minister that quite a lot of work has been done in this Ministry. Knowing the Minister, I am not surprised. There are major reforms which are going on in the Ministry of Lands. Mention was made of the land registries, Ardhi House, the land information management system, the National Special Plan, the land cover and land use mapping, et cetera . We commend the Minister and his staff for, under difficult circumstances, keeping the vision of this Ministry moving. On behalf of my Committee, I wish to make the following observations. It would appear that in the Budget, there was no mention of the recruitment of new staff, who are much needed, purchase of vehicles, purchase of land to resettle the landless poor and, indeed, the establishment of new district offices to facilitate the work of the Ministry. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we also observe that this Ministry has been affected by delays by the Exchequer to remit funds, and also delays in releasing of donor monies as well. We also observed that there are issues that were raised in the latest Report of the Controller and Auditor-General regarding this Ministry, following under-expenditure and under-collection of A-In-A."
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