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    "id": 1005807,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "One, the total allocation in the original Budget, I am sure my former Chair knows this, was Kshs3.6 billion. The National Treasury on their own volition - and this House did not prompt them - brought a recommendation under Supplementary Budget II to reduce that amount from Kshs3.6 to Kshs900 million, a reduction of Kshs2.7 billion. Now, the National Treasury has owned up that they made a mistake; that they had already issued an Exchequer to the Ministry to implement this project. Therefore, for the Kshs2.7 billion, they can only surrender Kshs900 million and were asking us to return the Ksh1.8 billion which already has been released to the Ministry and the Ministry is already spending it, anyway. So, it is already committed and the Ministry is spending it. We asked, as my Whip and the Chair Emeritus asked me: “How is this an emergency?” We also asked the same question that how can Ksh1.8 billion for railways be an emergency? The answer we got is that this money had been released. They were right to release it because Ksh3.6 billion The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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