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    "id": 975446,
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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": "I want Mr. Kirui to allow me to speak to the Speaker. The Senate will also table and adopt a report of the BPS. In my opinion, the budget-making process is an exclusive function of the National Assembly, except for the Division of Revenue Bill and the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. Hon. Speaker, maybe, you will give guidance later. I think the BPS that will be submitted to the Senate must be different from the one that will be submitted to the National Assembly. The one of the Senate must only refer to the Division of Revenue aspect and the Country Allocation of Revenue Act (CARA) aspect. I am foreseeing a situation where the Senate might have a divergent report to the one that we are discussing here today. That is food for thought for our Budget Office – the fiscal analysts and others who work there. I like what the Leader of the Minority Party has said about the BPS. This is like the framework. It is like building a house. These are the pillars. If we approve the BPS, it will show how the Budget will look like. So, raise your issues and concerns now in the BPS and forget about it. During the Estimates, as Hon. Mbadi said, Chairs come to us. This is where you need to address your issues of concern as Committees. From where I sit, the Committees should be more concerned about the oversight role they have over the amount of money we appropriate to MDAs of Government, Judiciary and Parliament. The theme of this 2020 BPS is: “Harnessing the Big Four for Job Creation and Economic Prosperity.” In my opinion, we use big terminologies. Very good terminologies. The theme will resonate well with the ongoing initiative of the Big Four Agenda. What does the Big Four Agenda want to do? In my opinion, the Big Four Agenda is supposed to raise productivity, create efficiency and thereby create an inclusive growth in the aspirations of the people of Kenya towards the Vision 2030 goal. That is the whole thing about the Big Four Agenda. We must be very careful. The Chair of Budget and Appropriations Committee, his colleagues and the National Treasury must be very careful of the serious challenges that we face today and have an impact not only to the Kenyan economy, but to the global economy. The global economy outlook is likely to be worsened by the current coronavirus. I was reading last night that the busiest transshipment port in the world, Singapore, is now operating at less than 15 per cent. The traffic that was coming from China has stopped. This coronavirus is going to completely affect the global economy which Kenya is part of. Of course, we have the weather in our country. Do not underestimate the locusts which are wiping tea estates and affecting the livestock farmers. They are going to have an impact. There is of course the recurrent expenditure pressure on the Government. In this country, for every Ksh100 we collect, we first pay debts. Maybe, we remain with about Ksh40. The other Ksh40 pays for salaries, tea and flowers. So, there is no money for development from our own collection. That is why when we gave the Government that option to open the debt ceiling… We agreed – and it is in the document of the Committee on Delegated Legislation – that this House cannot act in vain. We agreed that they restructure their debt from commercial to bilateral, multilateral and long-term concessional loans. I am hearing that in this BPS, the commercial loans have grown from Kshs213 billion to Kshs274 billion. These are areas that we need to look into. 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."
}