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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "I am aware from other quarters that there are indications that they may even want to recall us from Recess to come and probably, look at these issues like a Supplementary Budget. It is within their rights. However, we must be firm as a House, that if that CS is to table a Supplementary Budget before this House, we should not consider it until some of the issues that we have addressed in this House like the one Hon. Abdullswamad is raising, that touches the people we represent, are addressed. People out here are suffering. They are being forced to get goods from Nairobi and carry them to their destinations. Imagine you operating from Mariakani or Changamwe and you are forced to come for your goods from Nairobi and transport them back by road to Mombasa. Those are some of the issues the Member for Mvita had raised. The issue on petroleum is a matter that this House took its time because it affected not just the livelihoods but also the cost of living of the people who have sent us here. We are going into an election next year. If the people see us not representing them and acting in their interest, they will punish us. And before they do so, I want to implore the House that we punish this Cabinet Secretary to stop taking the House for granted. I dare say and I want to encourage the House that if there is a Supplementary Budget that is being brought in the course of recess, if the issues that have been raised by Members, the issues by Hon. Abdullswamad, Hon. Aden Duale, and petroleum business that we were to do… I am happy that we have had procedural motions that allow us to consider some of these things and go to committee in the course of the recess. I was reading the Order Paper this morning and was telling myself that if there is any business that this House should have prioritised, it was that Bill on fuel prices by the committee led by Hon. Gladies Wanga. If you have a Cabinet Secretary and a National Treasury that is taking the House for granted, we must have a re-course. Otherwise, if the Chair sits here and laments and the Speaker too is lamenting that the BPS was only brought the other day, what then are Kenyans bound to do? We are at danger - and that is the point I want to raise, just to raise our consciousness - of our Parliamentary democracy being threatened by an overbearing Executive that seems to be very keen to capturing even the Legislature. We must stand up as a House to protect our parliamentary democracy as the people’s representatives. Thank you, Hon. Speaker."
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