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    "content": "are either selecting their relatives or their friends and families. Therefore, we insist that the transfers should be done in a transparent and accountable manner. The State Department for Social Protection and the National Treasury should renegotiate the charges paid by the State to service providers on the processing of the national safety net payments. With a payment of, for example, Kshs10 billion, you could end up losing a billion shillings to banks that are minting billions from Kenyans and yet, this is money that is being transferred to the poor people. We want the Government to sit and renegotiate with banks to ensure that the charges are reasonable, so that we do not have 10 per cent of that money going to our banks. The resources of the Government of Kenya that are allocated towards the COVID-19 initiatives under the COVID-19 Emergency Respond Fund, must be appropriated by the National Assembly and proper mechanisms put in place to oversee the same. You know, money being collected from donors and other people, and public resources should be overseen by the National Assembly and I hope the same will come to this National Assembly for appropriation. Lastly on the National Treasury – and I had spoken about this - it about ring-fencing. On the financial recommendations, after careful review of the financial recommendations submitted by the departmental committees under Schedule II, and after abiding to the hard budget constraints which entails realism in revenue performance and target deficit, the Committee has recommended reductions, increments and reallocations as provided in Schedule I."
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