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    "id": 36585,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish the Members would be more attentive to what I am saying and stop putting words in my mouth. Basically, I have recognized Section 221(4) which basically says that the Committee will review and make recommendations to the House. The Committee has made those recommendations through a Report. We are discussing that Report. But within the framework of that Report, an amendment has been brought; which attempts to reallocate funds from one department to another without telling us, as a House, what are the implications of removing Kshs2.7 billion from a body that has been recognized within an institution that is paramount for the security of this country, and moving it arbitrarily to the police and famine relief, when the Government is already taking measures on how to address those issues through other reallocations? That is the import of my argument. We cannot come here and, at the stroke of a pen, at the whims of a Member, decide that we should move money from one account to another without looking at the implications of that move. We would be regarded as being very reckless if we were to do that kind of thing. I beg to oppose that amendment and urge this House to also oppose that amendment and look very critically at other amendments that may be proposed within the framework of this Report. With those words, I beg to oppose."
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