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    "id": 437146,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. G.G. Kariuki",
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        "legal_name": "Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am being very careful about what I am saying. I am sure that I am not insinuating improper motive against any Senator here. However, I equally have my own right and opinion about what I perceive to be Kenyan politics. I am not sure who among us here would not want to support additional money from Kshs226 billion to probably Kshs500 billion, if our Treasury could afford. That is in our Constitution. It says that we should get the money according to our income as a nation. We are not pleading with anybody to give us additional money unless we want to amend the Constitution. What is allowed by the Constitution is what we are talking about. In additional, the money that is supposed to be given to us has moved from 15 per cent to 22 per cent. Last year it was 32 per cent or 33 per cent. So, there is no limit and the only way we shall find somebody working against the Constitution is when the money is reduced to below 15 per cent. I am very sure none of the people in the Government will dare reduce this money to below 15 per cent, unless there is a national crisis. Even if there was a national crisis, the Constitution will still be mandating this House and everybody else in Kenya to demand that money."
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