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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to move: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 120, this House resolves to reduce the publication period of the Appropriation Bill, (National Assembly Bill, No. 33 of 2024), from seven days to five days. This is because the calendar that we have between today and next week is very tight. We will be discussing major and far-reaching policy instruments in this House, especially the Finance Bill and the Appropriations Bill. The essence of this is to meet the timelines as we move to the close of this Financial Year by the of this month. At the same time, we have given ample time for Members to peruse and interrogate the Appropriation Bill. Members are aware that those two processes would be intertwined. We have decided to have the Appropriation Bill after the Finance Bill because this is a very democratic House and country. It wants us to first trace where the monies are coming from, even before we finalise the Appropriation Bill, so that whatever Members may feel around the Finance Bill can also be taken care of in the Appropriation Bill to balance our revenue and expenditure. I am hopeful that we will look at those matters in a very objective manner because we are all looking forward to the many programmes that we have undertaken to complete. For example, electricity in our constituencies will get Ksh50 million per constituency and all the others including the increment in the agricultural sector, National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) and all the other elements that are very important for service delivery in regard to the Kenyan people. Also, the monies that we are appropriating to our counties, Ksh400.1 billion, is etched in this Bill. Alongside this Bill is also the revenue side which is the Motion that is a heavy one before us. It will be moved by the Chairman, Hon. Kimani Kuria."
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