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    "id": 1338144,
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    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I beg to move: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Article 113(2) of the Constitution and Standing Order 150(3), this House adopts the Report of the Mediation Committee on the Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.16 of 2023), laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, 11th October 2023, and approves the Mediated version of the Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.16 of 2023). Hon. Speaker, I want to thank the Members who participated in the mediation. I also want to inform the House that we had a very cordial mediation between the Senate and the National Assembly on the issues before us. Hon. Speaker, first, thank you for appointing me to this position. I also thank Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah, our Leader of the Majority Party, for his guidance during the mediation. It helped us unlock some very outstanding issues within the shortest time. I sincerely thank him for that. Second, I want to thank the team from the Senate. They were very magnanimous and good people. They brought honour to mediation, and as such, we were able to mediate the outstanding issues which looked very difficult and made them easy for the purposes of developing this law. Third, I want to thank Hon. Omboko Milemba, Hon. Millie Odhiambo, Hon. Abdi Shurie, Hon. Kwenya Thuku, Hon. Joseph Makilap and Hon. Kirwa Abraham Kipsang for the good job they did during the mediation process. Hon. Speaker, this Bill is important to anchor our debt. It has been canvassed in this House, and many issues were flagged out, but I do not want to belabour the points. We thrashed the outstanding issues, especially in Clause 6 of the Bill very well. Once Parliament passes this Bill, it will make a good law for this country. In this regard, I ask Hon. Abdi Shurie to second. Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker."
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