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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, in closing, I thank you. I re-emphasise the last point that having been taken through - and I know two or three departmental committees have also been taken through the Estimates - it is quite clear that the Budget Estimates that were tabled here last week have been prepared in a very ordinary manner. We have failed to take cognizance of the very extraordinary circumstances that face this country and the world economy at large. Therefore, we want to take an early opportunity to engage with the National Treasury and, through the National Treasury and our departmental committees, to engage with the Government or the Executive to ensure that we prepare a Budget that will be responsive to the needs of our people at this particular time. We have a health pandemic. We have a humanitarian crisis and we have and an economic recovery crisis that we must address. Therefore, I want to beg, Hon. Speaker, you allow the Committee and chairpersons and vice-chairpersons or even nominees of departmental committees to join us on Thursday, 14th May 2020 in the morning so that we can begin the engagement with the National Treasury so that we also forestall. Hon. Speaker, you are my witness that last week during the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, we saw amendments being brought by the National Treasury as late as 2.00 p.m., when we were going to the Third Reading. To ensure that we are able to accommodate everything well in time, we want to start engaging them this early. Through the departmental committees, we should be able to do that and deliver to this country by June, a Budget that will be responsive to the current situation in our country."
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