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    "id": 22842,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, allow me to make my presentation because you remember all the other Votes will be guillotined. So, I think if something is wrong, I need to point it out. We, as a country, will be judged harshly because we are starting on a wrong note. We, as a country, either choose to live with the old Constitution which we discarded or we start living with the new Constitution. We cannot have an excuse. Even if the Minister delayed to table the Budget Estimates in the House, the moment they were tabled in the House, we are supposed to follow the Constitution as it is. The Constitution is very clear that once the Budget Committee has made a recommendation, Parliament shall adopt it. From there, they prepare the Appropriation Bill straightaway. So, even this debate on Committee of Supply, to me, is unconstitutional. It is just a waste of parliamentary time. Whatever we are doing, history will judge us harshly because we cannot trash whatever we have already adopted as a House. Why did the Budget Committee have to do a Report to this House? I heard my chairman heaping a lot of praises on the Treasury as if it was doing us a favour. Remember the Minister makes dispensations. The Cabinet Secretary will not be in the House."
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