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    "id": 437271,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/437271/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Kembi-Gitura",
    "speaker_title": "The Deputy Speaker",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 242,
        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
        "slug": "kembi-gitura"
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    "content": " I do not know whether the Senate Majority Leader wants to respond, but maybe it is too late in the day for the Senate Minority Leader to raise that issue. This is because as I was sitting here I did ask the Chairman of the Committee to make a clarification when the matter became a little bit heated. He gave an explanation and clarification which Sen. Mutahi Kagwe has encapsulated quite correctly. The HANSARD is there to bear me out that he explained and said clearly that the figure on which we based our arguments and debate last year was based on a mistake. He reiterated that the current figure that we are going by – Kshs529.3 billion – is the last audited accounts approved by Parliament. I do recall saying that this is a Bill that has come to us from the National Assembly. It is not our Bill. However, we are dealing with it pursuant to the provisions of the Constitution. So, unless anybody has any data to show that the figures are wrong, since the audited accounts were approved by the National Assembly, I believe, at this point in time, that we can only go by the figures that we have. I do not recall any Member raising an issue with the Chairman, when he made the clarification that there was a mistake on the figures that we dealt with last year and the figure that we have to deal with now is Kshs529.3 billion. That is my off-the-cuff understanding of the situation. I can see that Sen. Muthama wants to say something, but this is not an issue that I want to protract. This is because I do not believe that we are going to reverse what we have dealt with this afternoon, at this point in time."
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