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    "id": 1259712,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1259712/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": " Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I stand to support the Appropriations Bill. In supporting it, when I was in the Opposition with my brother, Hon. Mbadi, we used to be very critical of Article 223 of the Constitution and why it should not be used by governments. We always felt that it propelled corruption and that it was the wrong way to manage a government and its finances. This is because, you are giving an opportunity to people to spend money as they want without regard to the laws passed in this Parliament. I totally agree that it is the wrong way to do things, but coming to this Supplementary Appropriations Bill that we are doing today, it is necessary we clear the issue of Article 223 of the Constitution under this financial year. I urge the implementers of the government’s budgets that while we are now doing Supplementary II, in future, we do want it because Article 223 of the Constitution is abused. We do not want the abuse to go on in government offices because of that. There is a lady called Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye who wrote a book called Coming to"
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