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    "id": 291931,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/291931/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mbadi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Our Constitution is very clear that the Minister is supposed to table Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure and not drafts or working documents. The Constitution goes ahead to outline how those estimates are supposed to be dealt with. There is nowhere in this Constitution it says that once you table the Estimates, there will be adjustments and readjustments. What is provided for in the Constitution is that once those Estimates are tabled in the House, a Committee of the House, which is the Budget Committee, would consider them and table a report on those estimates in the House, which shall be adopted or rejected by the House and then, we proceed to Appropriation Account. So, the Minister is creating a procedure that does not exist. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want to highlight that the estimates which were tabled here do not qualify to be estimates of expenditure because they are also drafts. The word “draft” is clearly marked on these estimates of expenditure. So, in totality, it is not only the issue of revenue. The estimates of revenue and expenditure which were purportedly tabled in the House by the Minister on 26th April, 2012, do not qualify as envisaged by our Constitution."
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