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    "id": 956374,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I also thank my colleague, the Chair of Budget and Appropriations Committee who has just visited me for bringing up this issue. This is particularly on the issue of reviewing the Budget quarterly. What we will achieve will be very fundamental and I think it is better for the people of Kenya to hear. There is a new implementation at the National Treasury called the Budget Review. Budget is about the people and the representatives of the people are in this House. The Constitution has given us power to make the Budget, but they have also introduced something to also alter it using the terms ‘Budget Review’. In other words, what might happen is that what the House passes on behalf of the people gets itself in National Treasury and some mandarins there can actually erase that project. That is terrible. It means that the power given by the Constitution to this House to make the Budget is eroded. The Budget is a political process. A few people give themselves the power of Parliament to review the Budget. You know what they do. They bring it as a supplementary budget because they have erased your project. Particularly being the chair of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing in terms of roads... You might have many roads for these Members and the people of Kenya which have been passed on the Floor of the House and during review you see that the road projects have been erased. There is nothing important as this review because it will cure that problem of trying to remove road projects. I thank the Committee and urge that we maintain it so that they know that we will keep them on check. I thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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