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    "id": 1005909,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 49,
        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "within the Budget and Appropriations Committee. They have completely sold their birth right. Since the Committee has allowed unconstitutional politics within it, the Executive would always be happy to do what they are doing to us at this eleventh hour. Last night, my son asked me what this Supplementary Budget is for because he thought we had passed the Budget the other day. Laymen out there can tell that something is not right. We have lamented here the whole evening and we sound like we are doing something better, but in the process, we realise that we are just hopeless because we have come here to regularise what has already been done elsewhere. If the Ministry knew that we could say “no”, they would not have done what they have done to us today. It is because they know that we will agree to another Sitting at night and regularise what they have already done, and this will happen again next year. As Members of Parliament, we must wake up so that Kenyans can benefit from the Constitution of Kenya, 2010. It is a good Constitution, but we are making nonsense of it. What is it that we are doing here tonight? We should have gone home. Hon. Gikaria read out the Standing Orders, trying to say that we should all be brought in to do what he did not do. But I agree that we are not in the times we are used to. In this Supplementary Budget, only items (i) and (viii) relate to the extraordinary times of the COVID-19 pandemic. The other issues should have been managed by the Cabinet Secretaries, who should have done their work well; and by the Budget and Appropriations Committee, which should have put the Ministry on its toes."
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