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    "id": 192396,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 195,
        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": " Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The point being raised here is based on the Constitution itself. When this House does go to the Committee of the whole House, we usually debate this vote by vote. Later on, the House will have an opportunity to interrogate all these votes. The point here is that the Estimates were laid before the House, which contain the global figures, which are in this schedule. In order to comply with the provisions of the Constitution, the Minister for Finance has produced the respective figures. The Motion talks of one half of the total net Estimates of Recurrent and Development Expenditures, which is Kshs246,434,247,840, but the Minister went further to give the actual figures for each vote. The Minister did not have to do this were it not a requirement of the Constitution. He would have easily just said that the figures as contained in the Printed Estimates be halved, and that would be all. However, it is a requirement that, in the Committee of the Whole House, we should go vote by vote. That is why, for example, if you begin with Vote R01, Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security, instead of just putting the figure of Kshs38,691,087,000, he has gone further to give the actual half of that figure in the next column of the Schedule. Mr. Speaker, Sir, therefore, in order for the amended Motion to be valid, the Mover of the amendment ought to have done exactly the same thing. He should have gone and divided that figure by four and indicate the actual corresponding figure in a schedule. Otherwise, we will be offending the provisions of the Constitution and the Standing Orders of this House. Thank you."
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