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    "id": 509155,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musimba",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Mweu Musimba",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I am rising on a point of order to state that the Motion No.12, as listed, is inconsistent with Sessional Paper No.14 where it reads “we are to approve” at the bottom. It notes the Sessional Paper No. 14 of 2014 on the increase of the Government of Kenya’s external borrowing ceiling laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 18th November, 2014. It reads “Pursuant to the provisions of Section 50(2) of the Public Finance Management Act, 2012, approves the increase of total indebtedness by the National Government, for the time being outstanding in respect of principal amount of money borrowed or credit obtained, fromUS$14 billion (Kenya shillings one trillion two hundred billion, that is, Kshs1.200 billion) to US$23 billion (Kenya shillings two trillion, Kshs.2,000 billion). This is grave and important to this nation. As such, there is a fundamental mistake in this Motion. When you read the body of the Report itself, the Sessional Paper on the Annexure requests the House to increase that- in paragraph 12. The National Assembly is requested to consider and approve the increase of total indebtedness for the time being, outstanding in respect of the principal amount of money borrowed from US$14 billion to US$28 billion. Therefore, the Motion as laid down on the Order Paper and that which exists on the Paper Laid as Sessional Paper No. 14 and the deliberations by the Committee are completely inconsistent. Thus, I am calling upon the Mover to invoke our Standing Order 51(1) and withdraw it so as to amend it and present it again on the Floor of the House, at an appropriate time."
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