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    "id": 1085511,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1085511/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kirinyaga Central, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Munene Wambugu",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13382,
        "legal_name": "John Munene Wambugu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to add my voice in support of this Report by a Committee which I belong to, the Committee on Delegated Legislation. I would want to assure the House and the Members that we first of all looked at the Constitution and the Statutory Instruments Act and confirmed that these regulations are done pursuant to Article 204 of the Constitution of this Republic. We also ensured that the requirements of Statutory Instruments Act were followed to the latter more so about public participation. There was extensive public participation actually across the whole of the Republic. It was done during this pandemic. The Treasury assured us that they did virtual public participation within the entire country. We also confirmed that these regulations were published within the requisite timelines and the Committee was completely satisfied that the regulations were brought properly before the House and the Committee. We also looked at these regulations and more importantly what we considered is that since the nullification of previous guidelines, the disbursement of the Equalisation Fund has stalled and currently we have some bills amounting to Ksh1.2 billion which are yet to be paid. Also, in the Financial Years 2020/2021 and 2021/2021, this Parliament has allocated a whopping Ksh13.6 billion which, because of lack of this regulatory framework, it is yet to be disbursed. Having considered that, we felt that the regulations are timely and the regulations should be passed without further delay."
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