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    "id": 1261817,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1261817/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Central, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I want Members to listen to this one. Clause 4 suggests that the Public Debt Management Office takes up an advisory role to advise Parliament. Currently, they only advise the National Treasury. Their advisory role is now being extended to include Parliament. If you look at the principle of separation of powers, first, this office is a directorate under the National Treasury, which means they are answerable to the Cabinet Secretary and the Principal Secretary of the National Treasury and Economic Planning. From that analysis, you can see that it is like Parliament will be advised by a department in the National Treasury. Based on the principle of separation of powers, this is not obtainable. Even though they are proposing that we do that, the Committee has taken a position on Clause 4. We are saying that there is no way Parliament can be advised by a department in the National Treasury. On that basis, this is a Clause we will be proposing for deletion, and it will not be part of the Bill."
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