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    "id": 1005869,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am going to be very brief to allow colleagues time to say something. I was saying I join issues with colleagues who have raised concerns about these multiple supplementary budgets and the lateness of these estimates, but I also join Members in supporting. Those aspects dealing with security came before the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security yesterday. Allow me to urge Members that there is the budget for security surveillance which is money being paid to the provider of that system. Just today there is a video of a person being robbed somewhere in Kilimani in broad daylight. We are only able to see it and we are only able to track it because of that surveillance. The Committee is alive and we authorised our Chair to liaise with the Budget and Appropriations Committee and confirm it to them that there is the danger and real apprehension that if that money going for security surveillance is not appropriated by this House in the manner proposed, then that critical security system is going to be suspended. The very seriousness of that matter is among other matters within the administration and security docket in the budget. For that reason and many others that the Members are alive to and for the sake of saving time, I request Members that we bend backwards as a House on this particular occasion also taking into account the situation the country is in. However, we undertake to guard the measures around the Constitution in Article 293 in future. 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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