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    "id": 1442161,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": " Certainly no, Hon. Speaker. How can Hon. Kamket inform me? Really? No! This raises the question of who advises this Government in terms of economics and finance management, leave alone politics. For politics, we can deal with it later. Who advises this Government, because it seems to make mistake after mistake? Following the outcry that happened after the 2023 Finance Bill was unveiled, I had thought that this Government would be wiser this time around. What we have seen is a worse case. As they say, the more things change, the more they remain the same. I have read the Bill in its entirety. I have similarly read the Report of the Committee chaired by my good friend, Hon. Kimani Kuria. If you look at the Report of the Committee together with the amendments it is proposing to make to the Bill, you come to the conclusion that the structure of the Bill is changing fundamentally. This flies in the face of the provisions of Standing Order 48. At some point, perhaps Hon. Speaker, I will be calling upon you to consider asking the Chair to withdraw the Bill and introduce a new one because its character is changing. Why is its character changing? Under Article 201(a) of the Constitution, some of the principles that govern public finance management are openness, accountability and public participation. If you come out of the blue and tell us that you have removed the taxes that had been introduced in the Bill, it goes against the principles of public finance management. That is turning a Public Finance Bill into a personal property that you can change at will."
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