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    "speaker_name": "Sen (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am equally concerned. I sit in the Senate Committee on Finance and Budge. The Cabinet Secretary did the same thing to us yesterday only that he was clever by a half in the sense that his excuse was that he was attending the Cabinet. You can see that he was not in Cabinet, he was in a rally. If this Parliament is not going to rise, what is happening in the Broad-Based Government is not going to be any different with what we saw in the Grand Coalition Alliance. Once people who have been opposing each other come together in the Executive, it is Parliament that can call them to order. Colleagues, when we found ourselves where the Broad-Based Government is starting to take us, Hon. Martha Karua, Hon. Mungatana, Hon. Gitobu Imanyara and myself took it upon ourselves and created an opposition. Something must be done. This is arrogance of the highest level. My brother from Kitui County, did you hear the Cabinet Secretary say the day before that whereas the Jaramogi Oginga Teaching and Referral Hospital could only access Kshs300 million from Prof. Anyang’-Nyong’o in the last budget, they now will be given Kshs3 billion in the budget, now that he is the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning? Is that what we want to allow to be the working of the Constitution? We must say no, so that we protect smaller and unlucky communities that do not have a Cabinet Secretary. The Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning is not the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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