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    "id": 297323,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/297323/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ms. Karua",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Martha Wangari Karua",
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    "content": "We have already agreed not to adjourn today. We will be on next week. What would have been so difficult pushing the Vote on Account to Tuesday or Wednesday next week and today getting the publication of the Appropriation Bill? I have looked at the former Constitution and the current Constitution - Article 101 of the former Constitution and Article 222 of the current Constitution. Both envisage the passage of Appropriation Bill by Parliament before Vote on Account. The only thing they allow is that even if the Bill is not assented to or is not operational in the words of the former Constitution, we still can go on. Therefore, we have been doing it wrong since time immemorial bringing the Vote on Account before the Appropriation Bill. We have now passed a Constitution. After we have disobeyed the old one and it became completely inoperative, we have passed a new one and we now have started nibbling at it. We have started making a patchwork of a new document. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would want to understand the Executive. What is so difficult about publishing an Appropriation Bill, getting leave of Parliament to shorten"
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