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    "id": 1054326,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, first I want thank you because procedurally you have allowed us to ventilate when we were to take a vote. You have used Standing Order 1 and we thank you for that. The matter before us is vital. I have been here for 14 years and there are many people who served in the 10th Parliament. The NG-CDF is a very emotive issue, even during Mzee Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s Government, when we were in the Grand Coalition Government. I agree. It is the first time I have seen, three months to the end of the financial year, a majority of constituencies have not even received a penny. This matter was boiling and was in the corridors of Parliament for the last two weeks. It is incumbent upon the Cabinet Secretary of the National Treasury and Planning, your office and the offices of leadership to always consult and make sure that we do not reach this stage. I really want to beg my colleagues and ask them that our case is very genuine, but we should not... One of the toughest valleys in Kenya — if you happen to know it, it is difficult to come out if you go into it — is called the Suguta Marmar Valley in Samburu. I do not want us to go into that. We are faced with this animal called the Division of Revenue Bill. In fact, if it is about counties, we should have denied them money. If it was the County Allocation of Revenue Bill, we could have refused to pass it because that one is giving money to counties. This Division of Revenue Bill is a vertical division between two levels of Government. If you allow me, there are two things that bind this House to pass this Bill. One is the Supreme Court..."
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