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        "legal_name": "Nuh Nassir Abdi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I think it should be understood by the Minister and the House that the Second Reading stage of this Bill was passed on Tuesday evening. The whole of yesterday morning and afternoon, hon. Members were committed until midnight, last night. Some of us stayed here until midnight. The amendments so proposed by the Minister only appeared on the website after 9.00 a.m. this morning when some of us came to learn about the amendments by the Minister. So, we had gone through many workshops on the Public Financial Management Bill as a caucus. We have several misgivings and we have issues that we need to pick up. If anything, if there are amendments that we think the hon. Minister has not carried on board, we need to bring them as individual Members so that they are included in the Public Financial Management Bill amendments. I think ambushing Members; even if the Minister was to go at great details to try and explain his caricature of amendments that he has here, does not take of our interests as Members to safeguard the dignity of the county governments who are facing an upfront at many clauses in this Bill. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, yesterday we made it explicit as Members here that let us not be ambushed with the Public Finance Management Bill in the morning session. The reason even for us being asked to have a sitting in the morning was because Mr. Kimunya said he wanted to consider the Public Finance Management Bill. The Government again retracted his argument and said because we have a backlog of Bills we need to clear, let us have a special session in the morning. This was with an understanding that they do not bring this Public Finance Management Bill. I plead with the Minister and the Executive Bench to at least give us until this afternoon. We may concur on many of these issues. Sometimes we use inconsiderably long time debating on amendments that if Members were given ample time to reflect on their own and in their caucuses would be sailing through in a minute. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, let us defer this Bill. After all, we have several other Bills on the Order Paper which are also important. Let us have this Bill in the afternoon."
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