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    "id": 1438818,
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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. Following the extensive public participation that comes to a close today, I am informed by the Office of the Clerk that the Committee on Finance and National Planning will retreat from tonight until Monday. Hopefully, they will table a report next week on Tuesday. It is also true that it is only upon the tabling of that report that Members can debate and have a very clear public discourse on what will be contained in the final Bill, or what would become the Finance Act of 2024. I have even seen governors in funerals and in churches, like the clueless Governor for Nyeri County, debating the Finance Bill and saying that he will vote no, as if he votes in this House. That governor even has no idea of what is contained in the Finance Bill, and has not even bothered to follow the public discourse. I, therefore, appeal to him…I know the people sending him are the same characters trying to mobilise Members of Parliament, and I must thank these Hon. Members of the National Assembly because they have refused to be incited against the Finance Bill, and insisted on waiting for the report of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning to read and understand what is contained in that report, see what amendments come out of the public participation, and then we make decisions based on that. But we cannot make decisions based on what a funny governor is saying in some church somewhere. I thank Hon. Junet for raising that question because it gives us the opportunity to put into proper perspective the workings and operations of the National Assembly and Parliament, that we never pre-empt debate by going to debate things out there before they come before us. The Bill is rightly before the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. The Committee is considering the Bill plus the proposed amendments that have come from members of the public and other stakeholders. I hope the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning will work with speed to table that report next week."
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