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    "id": 43043,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. M. Kilonzo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo",
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    "content": "That brings us to what hon. Nyamweya has said, because you also ignore it at the peril of the country’s arrangement. We have a very fundamental institution called the “East African Community”. In fact, one of the reasons as to why the Minister has offered to read the Budget on 8th is because Tuesday, 9th June, 2011 is a public holiday in Uganda. Whatever Kenya provides in its Budget, relative to the East African Community, must come timeously on the same day that the application for Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi come into force. You ignore that again, as a Legislature that has nominated Members of Parliament for the East African Community, at enormous peril to the constitutional future of this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is quite clearly an oversight. I want to suggest that, in your ruling, you need to interrogate the Treasury to find out whether ignoring Article 221 was an oversight, negligence, a mistake or was a human error. In either event, we want this House to offer leadership because it is so clear that the provisions of the new Constitution relating to the Budget should be in force."
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