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    "id": 968854,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/968854/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tongaren, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Dr. Eseli Simiyu",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 141,
        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
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    "content": "In any case, we, as Parliament, has disobeyed the law by agreeing to participate in these supplementary budgets. The law is very clear that you cannot introduce new projects in the middle of the financial year. That is in Article 223 of the Constitution. You cannot introduce new projects and yet that is what these supplementary budgets are doing. They are introducing new projects. Even Section 44 of the Public Finance Management Act of 2012 and Regulation 43 of the same bar the introduction of new projects in a supplementary budget. Actually this is playing havoc. As we all know, we have had a serious economic down-turn. Despite what the Public Accounts Committee keeps on recommending year in, year out, not enough action is being taken. If action is not taken against the people who are not handling public finances properly in the manner that is expected of them, then we will continue having a problem with the economy of this country. We are not being careful. The British say: “Take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves.” Here we have a situation where, as you heard, imprests in billions and hundreds of millions are not accounted for. We cannot go that way and succeed in anything."
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