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    "id": 356130,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alice Wambui Ng'ang'a",
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    "content": "On a point of order, hon. Speaker. The reason for raising this point of order is because I am confident that some of the information which this House is entitled to has not come to this House. From the public Finance Management Act, Section 38(b) and (e) specifically says that among the list of items that you are supposed to have here on 30th is information regarding any payments to be made and liabilities to be incurred by the national Government, for which an Appropriation Act is not required, which shall include the constitutional or national legislative authority for any such payments or liabilities. For your information, this is what we call the Consolidated Fund Services. If you look at the estimates of expenditure that we received, that item is missing. So, it is very important that we put this matter into perspective; that the Government has not provided. They did not even read the law to give us the documents that are required for this House to be able to transact its constitutional mandate of interrogating Budget Estimates. I would kindly ask the Chair to ask the Leader of the Majority Party to go and do his homework properly, even if it is a matter of sitting with the Treasury so that he gets the right documents that this House deserves to receive. This is going to be a very bad precedent; this will allow the Government to be bringing us half documents in this House."
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