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    "id": 283940,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sambu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alfred B. Wekesa Sambu",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me, on behalf of the Budget Committee, thank you and all the other hon. Members for the interest they have shown on this Motion. The Constitution of Kenya has given legislators a very huge responsibility of oversight in a manner in which resources are mobilized, allocated and accounted for. For many years, we sat in this House and talked about under provision and under collection of resources. In most cases, it was an exercise in futility. But today, we have an opportunity to influence the Budget. That influence is not in the name of enriching our pockets as legislators but it is to ensure that every Kenyan, big or small, poor or rich, young or old gets services and goods in an effective and efficient manner. While the Budget Committee and other Committees are finalizing their Reports to this House on the 2012/2013 Estimates, I hope that some of the resolutions made here today will inform their Budget amendments where necessary and more importantly to include the issues that the public told us over the weekend and on Monday. Members of the public are congratulating this House for finding time to go round and consult them on the Budget. For those Members who did not show up in these areas and centres, I hope they will be able to bring the views of their people sometimes in the course of the debate for these Estimates. In future, it will be the conclusion of the Debate on the Budget Policy Statement that will pave way for the annual division of revenue between the national and county governments among various counties. Let us take note of the good things we have done and learn from lessons where we might have faulted especially in the late submission of the Budget Policy Statement which has led to the late debate and conclusion on the same by this House. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, with these few remarks, I thank you and beg to move."
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