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    "id": 965727,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "additional costs in some votes where little money was appropriated in the main Budget. So, if there is a need to increase amounts to certain sectors, the national Executive through the National Treasury will send Supplementary Estimates for the National Assembly to discuss. If there are emerging financial needs for which no amount was appropriated, for example, the floods taking place in our country now and roads destroyed and there were no emergency funds specifically for that matter, then there is need for supplementary estimates to be brought. Reallocation within the budget of funds which could not be absorbed by certain Government agencies or ministries and because of the low absorption, the Government wants to reallocate its budgeted funds to other sectors also creates a need. So, there are a number of reasons that can make the National Treasury to submit supplementary estimates. There is no doubt that the Supplementary Estimates as tabled in this House were mainly because of the shortfall in revenue which was necessitated by the revision of the fiscal framework for the FY 2019/2020 and the Medium-Term Framework which the National Treasury has already submitted to the House. These changes are now being effected in the context of the Supplementary Estimates I which we are dealing with in this FY, with the aim of rationalising the Budget, realigning the Budget and enhancing the provisions for programmes under the Big Four Agenda as reallocated. I think we need to speak candidly to the National Treasury and the national Executive. If you go to the HANSARD and look at the report of BAC, during the tabling of the BPS 2019, you will find that the Committee raised fundamental questions: How do you implement the Big Four Agenda of the President when you have not allocated enough resources? There is no way you can implement the Big Four Agenda of the President when the 2019/2020 Budget did not have specific resources for the same. So, what the acting CS is doing now is that they have realised, barely five months later that they want to implement the Big Four Agenda of the President and they forgot to allocate resources. Hon. Mbadi will agree with me. The Committee cited this in the BPS report that they tabled before the House. Before I even go further, Hon. Makali Mulu said it and I really want to repeat it for record. County government allocation was done by this House and by the Senate and the Constitution has protected those resources. Nobody can bring in supplementary estimates to reduce the allocation for county governments. From where I sit, nobody can reduce the allocation for NG-CDF because it is a percentage. The law says at least 2.5 per cent of the national revenue. So, I think when the CS wanted to slash Kshs5 billion of CDF… Even when you go hunting, you hunt with some strategy and make sure that you get some food on the table. You cannot go hunting—and Hon. Mbui knows because he and I come from hunting communities—and you do not have the tools of trade. So, the CS is coming for approval, and he is slashing Kshs5 billion. I told him that was a very bad strategy. But, at least, we have agreed and the Committee has convinced him and he has rescinded. This morning, I was watching a Senate committee discussing how to give money to other arms of Government. I saw the Registrar of the Judiciary appearing before the Legal Affairs Committee of the Senate. I was shocked. The Budget-making process for Parliament, the national Executive and the Judiciary lies with the National Assembly. It is a function of this House. The Senate absolutely has no role. I saw some Senators who are very good lawyers saying that they are going to talk to their colleagues in the National Assembly. Since when did we appoint them as the middlemen to advise other arms of Government on what resources they should get? The Chief Registrar of the Judiciary, Anne Amadi—a person I have a lot of respect for—by going to the Senate to ask for them to help her with the supplementary estimates, is 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."
}