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    "id": 1015361,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1015361/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity. The budget-making process is time-bound. If you read this Report, you will find that the CRA submitted its recommendation to the Senate on the 30th April, 2019. Therefore, the Senate took too long. However, the Senate has no problem. Those of us who come from the pastoral areas, when it comes to resources - even as little as pasture - people fight. We are fighting Uganda even for the fish in Migingo Island. Therefore, when a matter is about resources, the Senate has not committed any crime. People in my constituency fight either over land, water or pasture! Therefore, we can forgive the Senate. The other matter which is in this Report - and I want the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee to listen to me - is that the amount that has been increased that made it Kshs370 billion is constitutionally illegal. If you read Article 135 of the Constitution, it is very explicit and says if the President makes a decision, he must put it in writing with his seal. Unless the Chair will give us a letter from the President with a seal, then that figure is a political figure. Therefore, we must just be dealing with the one that we passed here of Kshs316 billion - I think Kshs316.5 billion in the Division of Revenue Act. Hon. Chair, ensure that in your recommendation, you put that as illegal."
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