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    "id": 1283445,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "I note that Hon. John Mbadi is back in the House. Having been in this House at the time when we began implementing the 2010 Constitution, and being an accomplished accountant, he will tell you that the power of the purse has been given to the National Assembly under Articles 94, 95 and 96 of the Constitution. It is also in line with Article 221 of the Constitution. We must jealously protect that power and mandate given to this House. Therefore, I want to agree that we move this House to reject the proposed amendments by the Senate. We can then kick off a mediation process. You can imagine if we find ourselves in such a situation at the time of budget-making and we have disagreements on an amendment, say, of a comma or a prefix of a word. It will obviously lead to a mediation process which could take months. We have experienced that before when dealing with the Division of Revenue Bill. Its mediation went on up to almost the end of the financial year. So, this will greatly curtail our budget-making process. I want to beg that we agree with the Committee and safeguard the role of the National Assembly under Article 95 of the Constitution and protect our budget-making process. I beg to move and ask the Chair of the Public Debt and Privatisation Committee, Hon. Shurie, to second."
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