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    "id": 201890,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/201890/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sungu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 324,
        "legal_name": "Gor Eric Sungu",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to contribute to this debate on the Appropriation Bill. It is a statutory requirement that the Minister comes to the House for approval by Parliament to spend some odd Kshs450 billion. I am glad to note that the Minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs, the other day, presented us with the Elections Commission of Kenya (ECK) rules on the Presidential and Parliamentary elections and I hope that they will be followed. As we go for these elections, we hope that when we appropriate this money, the Government is not going to misuse the money in terms of electioneering. Time and again, we have noted that the Government always uses its vehicles, military and police aircraft and the Provincial Administration for purposes of partisan electioneering, and this ought not to be allowed. We also note that the Minister the other day, in fact not long ago, ordered that Government Ministers and other senior Government officials hand over excess vehicles. I hope that these vehicles, that were handed over were sold in the open market and that the Minister is not keeping several of those vehicles in his compound like I have heard before. These four by four vehicles---"
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