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    "id": 297365,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ogindo",
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        "legal_name": "Martin Otieno Ogindo",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to thank you for your magnanimity and generosity in your ruling today particularly to the Minister for Finance. But I must say that we are doing the right thing the wrong way. None of us is opposed to this Motion on Vote of Account. We all swore to defend and uphold this Constitution. The Constitution says that Parliament shall approve the estimates. As we speak, we do not have approval of the estimates. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the same Constittion says that Vote on Account shall not be more than a half of the estimates. As we speak, we do not even know the total amount of the estimates. The Chair referred to the court ruling. The court said that its failure to grant the orders that were sougtht was not to be intepreted to mean that it condones non- constitutionality in the process. This Parliament is lucky that nobody can take it to court. However, we will look bad if everyday we do things that are unconstitutional. I am sure by our action today we have invited ourselves to the courts. The reasons that are being given here by the Executive are very pedestrian and nobody would buy them. We were inviting the Minister to just be kind and procedural because what was left in this budget proccessing was very little. We were just to come here, approve the Budget and go straight into the Appropriation Bill. Having interrogated this Budget, this House was in the mood of"
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