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    "id": 975546,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/975546/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "I am saying this because if we look at last year’s and this year’s BPS, you will see lots of cut and pasting. You look at the numbers contained within the BPS and the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) from which it was derived and you start seeing inconsistences. It just shows that somebody is not taking it seriously. So, you have a target in the MTEF, when you come to the BPS, it is different and in April, we end up with Estimates that are not consistent. So, it becomes like a ritual because it is required to be submitted by law. What I would want to ask is to, perhaps, get some seriousness at the planning level at the National Treasury. As we generate the MTEF, which is realistic, based on it, we can interrogate and seek to know the strategies the Government will put in place to achieve the MTEF targets. Those ones must be synchronised with where the country wants to be. For example, in the education sector, we are talking of the Competency Based Curriculum (CBC), the transiting from one structure to the other, we will need extra classrooms. We are talking of 100 per cent transition which requires more classrooms, but when you look at the MTEF and the BPS, we are basically talking of the need to construct 90 classrooms per year in primary schools. So, are we inconsistent between the policy pronouncements and what is in the documents?"
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