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    "id": 1187092,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, I want to react to what Hon. Millie Odhiambo has said. We must appreciate that these Petitions are from members of the public who have every right to petition this House. Therefore, we should consider the Petitions with due diligence and give justice to them. More profoundly is the Petition by Rev. Nthumbi on the removal of the commissioners. I want to beseech Members that since this is a Petition by a member of the public, we must allow JLAC to do its work. I applaud you because you have guided JLAC on how to conduct work in regard to the Petitions. We must allow the Committee to consider the Petitions. This is just the first stage in the process of dealing with constitutional commissions. I do not want to say much. On the Petition by Mr. Stephen Mutoro of the Consumers Federation of Kenya, I must say that I support it. Further, I note that, indeed, the previous regime committed close to Ksh200 billion out of the Budget cycle. If we do not stop this now, it will portend a very bad precedent for the current regime. I want to request the Public Petitions Committee to take up this matter with gusto and address the issue of abuse of Article 223 of the Constitution. This is because many of the things on which this money was committed in the last days of the previous regime are things that would have waited to be considered for resource allocation in the next Budget. Better still, they would have waited for a Supplementary Budget this year. Therefore, I support the Petition by COFEK. I encourage the Public Petitions Committee to act very fast to get us to know the real details of the unseen things that the previous regime was so intent on spending on."
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