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    "id": 355974,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ong’o",
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        "legal_name": "Alice Wambui Ng'ang'a",
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    "content": "On a point of order, hon. Speaker, Sir. Today is 30th April, 2013. If you go through our Constitution Article 221(1) and read it together with the Public Finance Management Act, Section 37, the law is very clear that today this House is supposed to receive Estimates of revenue and expenditure from the Cabinet Secretary responsible for finance. I seek your guidance because of two fundamental issues. first, there is the constitutional deadline of 30rth April which must be met and secondly, there is difficulty in meeting that because the Constitution talks of none other than the Cabinet Secretary responsible for finance to submit these Estimates. We are all aware that, that is not practical to have the Cabinet Secretary in place before midnight today. I would also want to highlight that in the same Public Finance Management Act, it is very clear that before those Estimates are brought to this House, they must be taken to the Cabinet for approval. This is for obvious reasons that the Cabinet must own the Estimates. A Budget must be a Government Budget and, therefore, the Cabinet is required by law first to endorse these Estimates. Given this crisis that we are facing at the moment, I would urge the Chair to give direction to this country on how we are likely to proceed. In so doing, I consider those constitutional provisions and how then do we go around them to make sure that this country does not stall in terms of operations and in terms of service delivery and also that we do not violate the express provisions of the Constitution. I want to conclude by saying the same is captured in Standing Order 232 all the way to Standing Order No.235."
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