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    "id": 987941,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/987941/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
        "slug": "junet-sheikh-nuh"
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    "content": "Having said that, I am really surprised at the way financial issues of our country are being managed. Under Article 223 - and you being a senior lawyer and almost a Supreme Court Judge know- we are supposed to use it only when there are unforeseen issues. However, when I look at the Supplementary Budget, I see money that has been spent on ordinary things. It just shows how we are not prudent in implementing our budget. Why countries have budgets is because they want to achieve financial discipline. That is why we do a budget at the beginning of the year, present it to Parliament, it is passed, the Appropriations Bill is done and you go to implement it. What is this that we have not seen of ordinary things such as building railways and roads that cause one to spend money outside their budget, and then expect Parliament just to rubberstamp it like that? We must be a country that follows the rule of law and respects its Constitution. Outside that, we shall be embracing anarchy and the economy can collapse because of that. There are good things that have been brought under this Supplementary Budget. There is the Kshs10 billion for cash transfer for vulnerable people. That is good and I really appreciate it. Parliament has given from its budget Kshs3 billion to go towards Kenyatta National Hospital and the front-line health workers in the fight against Coronavirus. However, Hon. Speaker, I expected much more than that in this Supplementary Budget. I want to indulge the Executive that they have not stood up to their equation. This is a time when the country is at war, fighting a disease that has become a pandemic in the whole world. I expected much more money to be focused on social safety; on how to feed people who cannot afford food in their homes; how to alleviate the suffering of people because of loss of jobs or companies closing down because of the Coronavirus."
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