 Thank you for staying with us. To all the stories, the Senate has amended the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Act to extend the implementation year from the 10th of June to the 31st of December 2023. This is to allow the full implementation of the budget, especially in the light of the 2022 supplementary budget approved in December 2022. However, according to the Senate leader Abdelahi Gubir, significant amounts of funds remain with the MDAs and would require a further extension to be fully expanded. Mr. President, my hard-earned esteemed colleagues, I made me to lead the debate on these very important bills, which seek to amend the 2022 Supplementary Appropriation Act to extend the implementation year from 30th of June 2023 to 31st of December 2023 respectively. This was to allow full implementation of the budget, especially in light of the 2022 supplementary budget approved on December 2022. The extension had allowed MDAs to utilize a large appropriation of funds released to them. I think we are only recycling this. There was a time when this same issue came here and senators protested. We don't have to follow what the House of Representatives do. And we are lucky that some of you are here. We might not be here, but a government business here. Let's allow the other senators who are elected to come and do this. And furthermore, anything that we didn't do six, seven months, eight months ago about our road, we cannot do it in three weeks or four weeks. This is the honest truth. We felt to get out of the House that since religious may start from next week, it is impossible that 819 billion that was provided in that supplementary appropriation could be utilized between now and end of June. And of course, we need the laws to be fixed. We need the bridges to be fixed. It's already late in some parts of the country. It has started raining already in most of the southern states. And if we don't hasten it and rain takes over, even to reconstruct or rehabilitate those roads and bridges may be near impossible.