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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "budget and it is Kenyans who, in their own wisdom, decided to have a Presidential system, we will be doing ourselves a disservice. If these committees are not funded and Parliament is not given enough funds to recruit enough staff, we will suffer. These are the issues that we need to address. I am on record as having said this before. We need to ask the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee to address the issue. In this year’s Budget, we proposed to have a budget of Kshs23 billion. Eventually, in your own wisdom, you gave the Commission about Kshs19 billion creating a deficit of about Kshs5 billion, which is going to be reflected in our own institutional frameworks. It is not something that the Commission has just got. Right now, we are in the process of asking for supplementary budgetary allocation. I know those of you who serve in different committees realize that the budget given to committees is not enough for their tea and mandazi. These are issues that must be addressed and it is in the hands of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Hon. Deputy Speaker, coming back to this, this is a constitutional requirement; we did whatever we could to get the best out of the team that came before us; a man and women. We went ahead and ensured that the two represented as much as possible, the interest of the two coalitions and passion and interest of hon. Members. Therefore, I want to plead with hon. Members to support these two names as they will add value to the already constituted commission. For those who are familiar with the formation of PSC, it was a taboo to criticize your party leader. You should agree with your party leader. But Dr. Ali and a number of other individuals at that time, for the sake of hon. Members, stood firm. Hon. Jimmy Angwenyi will tell you that some of them were even sacked simply because they stood firm and said: “This is not in the interest of hon. Members.” That even included a commissioner who was de-whipped by his party. I want to ask: Is it possible today that the hon. Members of this august House can sit down and say, “Look, we went to have so and so in the commission, notwithstanding the position of the party that brought that particular individual to the House? That is what those guys did and it worked; one living example is hon. Peter Oloo Aringo. He was de-whipped by NDP and KANU during the merger, but we sat down here in a Kamukunji and said: “We do not agree with the position of our party leaders”. For the sake of our welfare, we wanted to have hon. Peter Oloo Aringo. Is it possible today?"
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