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    "id": 1051948,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": "documents that are tabled in Parliament are exclusively a product of the Executive. Therefore, you have got to work round it to make sense out of it. The parameters that have been set make it very difficult for Parliament to make an impact on that process. I think that is a topic for another day. Finally, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the bottom line of all these things that we are doing, and now that our responsibility is to the counties, I can see my County of Siaya, compared to the last financial year, will get nearly Kshs1.5 billion on top of what they got in the last financial year. There is improvement. There is extra money going to the counties, and the citizenry is looking for services. I was on a vernacular radio programme recently and they were sort of reprimanding me that I am not loud enough in criticizing my county government for the lack of services or the fraud that is going on in the county. At the end of the day, the citizenry of this country expect services in all the counties. If those services are not delivered, then, the citizens will think we are not doing our work properly. Therefore, I want to plead with the Executive that the way these budgets are meant to be structured and implemented, is really for purposes of making sure that people get services. Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. rightly spoke about what is going to the Judiciary. In order to create an enabling environment for security and business, what you do in the courts is very fundamental. If you go to the commercial departments in our courts, there are a lot of agencies and companies having disputes. If those disputes are not determined efficiently and in the time that makes it possible not to make business losses, then that environment cannot be good for business. I hope that this very low allocation to the Judiciary will be improved through appropriations that will come after the main Budget. However, if something can be done about it now, I think it is important. I am saying something should be done about it because we do not do appropriations. Appropriations are done in the other House. I think it will be shameful to expect the Judiciary to do the work they are expected to do and have a meagre sum of Kshs17 billion to run the entire court system in the Republic. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support and urge the Chair, whom I really respect, that all these recommendations that we have made will be taken seriously by the National Treasury. I also want to commend His Excellency the President of the Republic for coming to the realization that we are in very difficult times. Instead of making a mockery of how he has found it necessary to work within the framework of the multiparty democratic system that we have, not within the context of a coalition government, but within the context of Kenya being a multi-party democratic State. The fact that he has found out that it is proper for him to talk to the Wiper leadership, Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leadership and the Amani National Congress (ANC) leadership and the party and Ford Kenya when the house is burning is a gracious and the patriotic thing to do. Elements within Jubilee Party should also follow suit. We do not want you to fall apart. We want you to enjoy these five years of tenure. We will never move on the other side. I am happy enough where I am. Coming on the other side is probably dangerous. However, you want every person in the Jubilee Government to enjoy the remaining one- The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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