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    "id": 1077021,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Yesterday, I was in some programme and one of the leading economists said that Kenyans will slap us the same way one of the presidents of a friendly country was slapped; or Kenyans will end up caning us. It is easier said than done. When you are not in the field playing, you may think that if you are put there, you will do much better work, but when you get to the field it becomes a totally different ballgame. We are the people’s representatives, as Members of Parliament. Particularly, as Members of the National Assembly, the people of Kenya, through the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 saw it fit to give us the power of the purse. They gave us more power to control and approve the Budget. I am aware that it is the Executive’s responsibility and duty to come up with programmes and implement them. The Budget also belongs to the Executive and we do not know which programmes the Government will be running. However, when we are convinced that there are certain programmes that do not make sense, we should not shy away from insisting and standing our ground against the Executive. We need to insist like so many committees have made some good proposals to reallocate funds from one programme to another. Where we are not increasing the budget deficit, I do not see why the Executive should just insist, but we are not going to accept such good proposals in reallocating funds within the Ministry from one programme to the other. On that one, we need to just insist and push through because we have the power of the purse and we are a budget-making institution."
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