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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Imanyara",
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        "legal_name": "Gitobu Imanyara",
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    "content": "To go back to the point, the Finance Bill is so critical for this country and the management of the finances of this country that we cannot accept to go on recess without persuasive reasons. My good friend, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, should have called us in a Kamukunji and we would have listened to him. But to seek the assistance of the Executive when he can talk to his own colleagues in the House--- The Minister should come to the House and seek to reason together so that we can hear him and see whether he is making any case. That was a betrayal to the House and I think the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance lost the confidence and credibility of those of us who would have otherwise had sympathy for him in seeking to delay the Finance Bill to such other time. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we cannot go on recess on the basis that we are in a position to borrow because we know what borrowing is doing to this country. We know that we are borrowing under circumstances where one private bank seems to have taken over the role of the Central Bank of Kenya. It is functioning as if it is the Central Bank of Kenya, contrary to the principles set out in the Banking Act; contrary to the principles of good governance and contrary to principles of fair management of this country’s economy. It is time for this House to tell the Executive that the days of summoning Members of Parliament to rubberstamp legislations made elsewhere are long gone. Today we are determined to confirm and show you that. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to oppose this Motion."
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