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    "id": 1440338,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
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    "content": " Hon. Deputy Speaker, if you look at this Bill, how else can you explain that it is not a Money Bill? The memorandum of objects and reasons for the Bill says it is not a Money Bill. However, when you open it up, it creates centres and talks about inspectors who must be employed by somebody. They must also be supervised or coordinated somewhere. Those centres must be maintained by the public Exchequer. When you open up those big premises of policy on protecting the child, she will be protected where there are functions which money follows. I am really sympathetic to the girl-child. I want to have a Bill which fixes her issues. Since the onset of bicameral legislation process, we have had problems where good Bills are lost because of the people who sponsor them or the thought process behind them. If this Bill originated from this House where my colleague sits and she originated it, we would not talk about this issue. We would talk about how to reinforce it and make it better to protect the girl-child. For some reasons, Members of the other House get into issues which they do not investigate very well. This is a constitutional issue which we cannot do something about it. Article 114 of the Constitution is a constitutional issue. Hon. Emaase, an emeritus lady and a doyen of this legislation, will see the Bill because she is a Member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Hon. Emaase, please, convince us that this is not a Money Bill. She is still consulting. Please do not mistake us."
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