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    "id": 1456687,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kinangop, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kwenya Thuku",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Zachary Kwenya Thuku",
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    "content": " Indeed, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I agree and stand guided. I cannot put it better than my colleague, the Member for Ol Jorok. Indeed, Senate does not need the Senate Oversight Fund. Giving Senators that money will be robbing Kenyans because they are on payroll. Their business is not to supervise but to oversight. We are facing something which has never happened before. A situation where we are revising… I do not believe this is purely a supplementary budget, because it does not fit the interpretation of Article 223 of the Constitution whereby, the supplementary budget addresses expenses that have been incurred and were not foreseen at the time of budget-making. As a House, we need to have a conversation. This is because from where I sit, I believe we have placed the cart before the horse. The reason as to why we are in this current predicament is because I do not know whether the framers of House procedures wanted to pass a certain mischief. The Finance Bill comes after the Budget and appropriation of the same. We cannot appropriate what we do not have. If we are to be sincere with ourselves, we would not be where we are today. I believe the Finance Bill should be addressed first. After we know we are within limits, we can pass the Budget. This way, we will appropriate monies that we are sure of. Ordinarily, before the Budget is done, there is a Medium-Term Revenue Strategy and Medium-Term Debt Strategy so that we can see where we are in terms of revenue and public debt. It is saddening that we have to pass the Budget and then the Finance Bill. We usually say this is the much we want to spend, appropriate it and then come back to say where we will get the money from. If things were done in reverse order, we would not be here because the Bill could have been dropped by the President and we would have appropriated money based on last year’s Finance Bill. Therefore, as a House, we need to have a conversation as to whether this trend should continue and I know where we are coming from."
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