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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ethuro",
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": "The CDF Act clearly says: \"Equal to and not less than 2.5 per cent\". These are his own figures! I am not creating my own! On the other revenues, he has estimated to raise Kshs467 billion. Simple arithmetic, unless, of course, you know--- They do not seem to appreciate the figure of a quarter; 2.5 per cent and 50 per cent. That is why they cannot understand how you cannot move from 100 per cent, 50 per cent and to 25 per cent. There is another 2.5 per cent because we want the Minister to appreciate something called \"a quarter\"--- Mr. Speaker, Sir, Section 4(2)(a) of the CDF Act says: \"---an amount of money equal to and not less than 2.5 per centum of all Government ordinary revenue collected in every financial year\". The second consideration we want to give to the Minister is: We want to give him a quarter so that, in the second quarter, he will be able to come to this House and give us a proper figure which he has calculated. That is because he needs more calculators and computers than he may be having! The second issue is: The Minister brought the Financial Management Bill to this House. It was debated and, up to this day, he has not published the rules and regulations. How are we supposed to operate? That is why we are saying that the business of being lazy because we have given you 50 per cent of the Vote must stop by making sure that in every quarter, the Minister accounts to this House on the previous expenditure, so that we can be able to give him more money. While I am seconding this Motion, the third point is: The Committee of Supply is only there for 20 days and we have 42 Ministries. Each Ministry will require two days. Only 10 Ministries can be voted upon, contrary to what hon. Orengo suggested. We cannot remove even a shilling from a Ministry. You can only do a figurative Kshs20. What is that? Mr. Speaker, Sir, on Section 48, where there is an argument about the President giving assent--- He has already given assent! Section 48 only denies us a Bill or a Motion that will decrease the charge to the Consolidated Fund, but not to reduce it! In fact, we are doing the President a favour by making sure that it is less than what he had authorized. Surely, who cannot accept such logic?"
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