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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Imanyara",
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        "legal_name": "Gitobu Imanyara",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, obviously, my friend has taken too much time looking at those very old files in the Lands Office and he has lost some of his eyesight! I appreciate that he would not have wanted Mr. Speaker to catch my eye before catching his. Nevertheless, I rise to oppose this Motion. Those of us who are opposing this Motion are not opposing it for the purpose of bringing the operations of the Government to a halt. That is not our intention! Indeed, the principle captured by Section 101 of the Constitution is precisely to enable the Government to function pending the passage of the Appropriations Act. If I may just read it--- For the full import, it says:- \"If the Appropriations Act for a financial year has not come into operation - and, indeed, it has not come into operation - or is not likely to come into operation - we trust that it will come into operation by the end of October - by the beginning of that financial year, the National Assembly may---\" So, the wording of the Constitution is \"may\". A tradition has emerged in this House over the years that where a discretion is provided for in the Constitution, the Minister for Finance takes June 25, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1417 it for granted that the House will rubber-stamp his intentions and give him the money that he requires. If that has been the tradition, the time to end it is today."
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