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    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "attended the burial of one or two. They were really in dire need of help. They were buried as destitutes. Having said that, I want to agree with the former Leader of the Majority Party that it might spiral into other parts of the Civil Service, but the issue of Article 114 of the Constitution is partly an advice. It is supposed to advise. That is why Bills are taken to the Budget and Appropriations Committee so that they decide on the issue properly. If the National Treasury has advised in one way or the other, it is the prerogative of the Committee to either agree with them or not to agree. It is because this is part of the law-making process. It cannot stop at a certain point because of the Executive part of the Government saying that they will not agree. The head of the Executive will in the end have a say in the Bill; he can either agree or disagree with what we pass but the element of the National Treasury is an advisory part. Having said that, I want to thank the Committee. When some of these former Members of Parliament come here, you will have mercy for them because if you look at their shoes, you will be shocked. You cannot look at them. Remember that one time you will also become a former Member of Parliament. You will even miss money to buy medicines. So, this is one Bill that we must support by all means in solidarity with our former colleagues who are in their old age. Some of them are as old as 60, 70 and 80 years. They are in the sunset years of their lives."
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