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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Baiya",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Njoroge Baiya",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I also want to support this Motion. Everybody agrees that we need to have a Budget. We are not ready for a shut- down come the end of the financial year. The new Constitution is not a recipe for anarchy and chaos, but it is meant towards improving financial management of the country. Even though there has been controversy about the transitional process for the implementation; if any clarity was needed, the recent Speaker’s ruling was clear on the point; namely that the Minister for Finance or the Cabinet Secretary in charge of finance must present estimates before the House at least two months beginning in the future. But in the circumstances that we are in today, given that period had already lapsed, it was proposed that we still go ahead to refer the Budget Estimates by the Finance Minister to the same Budget Committee to work on them and present its own report before the House. In those circumstances, Parliament will still have to proceed to ensure that come the end of the financial year, Government functions continue to run and that all the services that are needed to be given to Kenyans and continue. The country is in the middle of serious economic challenges. We have a lot of development programmes and efforts that are going on that need to be sustained. We have social services, as other hon. Members have mentioned, that need to be sustained as part of our social existence."
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