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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. Most hon. Members have contributed to the Supplementary Estimates as amended. I want to first thank the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Yesterday and today are two different days for him but I am sure he has seen that what is dear to Members of Parliament is not something you can play around with on the Floor of this House. At least, the Kshs5.4 billion is safe and the Government is also safe with its Supplementary Budget Estimates. I hope if the House approves the Motion as amended, then we will have the Supplementary Appropriation Bill next week and also the Appropriation Bill, 2013/2014. Hon. Speaker, Sir, I also want to say that a number of Bills have been submitted by the Executive. They have already been printed and ready for this House. They include: The Finance Bill, Value Added Tax Bill, Capital Markets Amendment Bill, 2013, Insurance Amendment Bill 2013, Microfinance Amendment Bill, 2013, Tax Appeals Tribunal Bill, 2013, Kenya Deposit Insurance Amendment Bill 2013 and finally, the Insurance and Motor Vehicle Third Party Risk Amendment Bill 2013. Those Bills have been printed and are with you here in Parliament. Hon. Speaker, Sir, there was a huge debate about governors. I was watching television when the nominee for the position of Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs was being vetted. I was shocked to hear the nominee say that there was a governor, out of the 47 governors in this country, who had already appointed envoys and ambassadors to represent his county. In my opinion, that is treasonable because Kenya is a unitary state. I hope that the governor does not come from Garissa County. I expected the Committee to push the nominee to name the governor, so that the country could know that apart from the flags, special vehicle number plates and the titles that they have been given, which is not a big deal; no governor can have envoys to represent his county even in a failed state like Somalia. I want to tell the governors in northern Kenya that they cannot have an envoy in Ethiopia. For instance, Turkana County borders Ethiopia and South Sudan. That county cannot have envoys in those two countries. Therefore, I do not want this House to extend the “war” it has had with the Senate to the governors. Doing so would be opening too many battle fronts to triumph. With those remarks, I beg to reply."
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