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    "id": 975593,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/975593/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mwea, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Josphat Kabinga",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13441,
        "legal_name": "Josphat Kabinga Wachira",
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    "content": "The BPS is a very important document for it is where the Government reflects its strategies, policies and priorities that will inform the Budget Estimates that we expect in April. Therefore, the expenditure in this document, right from the time data is collected from the various departments at the local level to the time we have public participation and the various Committees undertake to present to the BAC for the report to be prepared, should be taken seriously. It should live to its purpose. It is unfortunate that today we are discussing a Budget Policy Statement that will inform the Budget Estimates in April, but come April, we will get Budget Estimates that are totally unaligned to the BPS. We need to ask ourselves as a country why we are not able to forecast or plan and come up with a document that lives to its purpose. A country like America has a budget of three years. In those three years, the deviations are minimal. Here, we prepare a BPS at such a time, but in April, we will get a budget that is totally different from the BPS itself. We, therefore, end up with Budget Estimates that are approved by this House followed very quickly by supplementary budgets. The makers of the Budget have formed a practice that because supplementary estimates can be introduced and passed, they do not need to be serious as they prepare the Budget Estimates as well as the BPS."
}