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    "id": 1489956,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Okiya Omtatah",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, from where I come from ideologically, not ethnically or regionally, I do not share much with Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. It is very clear, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, so, do not get offended. This is just a statement of fact that we do not share much, ideologically. From where I come from ideologically, it is said that if something is worth doing, it is worth doing it well. So, if the President was convinced that the Finance Act that was supposed to finance his budget had a problem, then he should have rejected both the Finance Bill and the Budget Appropriation Bill for the current budget cycle. Parliament would have gone back and looked at the two Bills and then proceeded to see what adjustments could be made. However, when he rejected one and assented the other into law, it creates a quagmire whereby we are saying, starve so-and-so and finance so, and so. The other thing is our budget. From where I sit, I always do a Spreadsheet analysis of these budgets. Already, we had identified more than Kshs100 billion in that budget that the President signed into law which is money that has got no functions to perform. What the National Assembly should have done, would be to sit down and comb through the budget and remove what has become in popular parlance, budgetary corruption."
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