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    "id": 1064532,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Speaker",
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    "content": "Appropriations Act of 2019 were unconstitutional and an order is hereby issued that the Speakers of the two Houses of Parliament go to regularise. One question is: Do they understand what an Appropriations Act does to authorise expenditure and withdrawal of money? From 2018, 2019 and even to the Judiciary and we authorise that and they have spent. Moreover, they now want us to regularise. Why regularise? They should just say we are going to repay because we received it unconstitutionally. I mean there is really need for somebody to try and talk to them. Some are fairly knowledgeable but there are some who you know sometimes when you pick some fellows from outer stations where they mainly concentrate on matters to do with pregnancy compensation and dowry payments…To give them matters to do with the interpretation of the Constitution, obviously, you are giving them a terrible headache. They find they cannot understand. This is because they have left the station. They have been out there in the outer station where they do not deal with these matters frequently. Anyhow, the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs - and Hon. Gitonga Murugara is in the House - please take up this matter. Hon. Kaluma, you can assist them. Tell them before they make some of those decisions, they should ask people to explain them. They should even call experts from the universities or from the National Treasury to explain to them what this Bill does. What does an Act of this nature do? When you say “A Finance Act, 2018 is unconstitutional”, I mean that is the authority on which even the taxes from which salaries were paid from was collected. It just does not add up! Hon. (Dr.) Wamalwa."
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