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    "id": 380057,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/380057/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Stephen Muriuki Ngare",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, mine is a small contribution. It is to do with any proposed amendment to the Constitution which has been in the air and in the Senate, so far. We are now debating a Bill whose figures we, as Senate, did not agree with initially. However, we have no choice because the counties have to operate. When I look at it, I think what is wrong as a country is that we are doing the budget upside down. We should have started by we, the Senators, engaging the counties so that each one of them tells us and convinces us that “our expenses and our budget is this.” Once we have got those budgets from the counties, then and only then can the Division of Revenue Bill be debated, first of all, starting from the Senate and not from the National Assembly. In my view, we seem to be doing things upside down. This is the reason even when the Bill was signed, we could not do anything about it because the Constitution is beginning with the Division of Revenue Bill. So, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir"
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