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    "id": 272030,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/272030/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mungatana",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 185,
        "legal_name": "Danson Buya Mungatana",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. That is not a point of order. I was making a point that the Treasury is arrogating itself powers that are dangerous and they are obfuscating other offices that ought to have equal powers. I will now come to another point. This is a very quick one; sub clause 6 again. I am still on the powers of the Treasury on Clause 17. It says that the approval or withdrawal from the Consolidated Fund by the Controller of Budget together with written instruction from the National Treasury requesting for withdrawal shall be sufficient authority for the Central Bank of Kenya to pay the amounts from the National Exchequer. This tries to create an equal footing between the National Treasury and the Controller. The Controller is a constitutional office which is not supposed to be under direction of anyone. They are the ones who actually control the money that is supposed to come out. We cannot have a provision that says that it has to have written instructions from Treasury to be joined with the Controller and then, that is when now money can be released from the Central Bank of Kenya. What we are trying to do here is to kill other offices that ought to be as strong as the Treasury, if not better. That is because these are independent offices. When the Kenyan people were passing this Constitution, they had reasons to create those independent offices. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my time is over but I beg to---"
}