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    "id": 515546,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "been cleared and this radar has been sitting at Kenya Ports Authority (KPA) for the last five years. All we asked in the last budget process is for the Treasury to ask Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to waive this so that the radar can be used. Chairs do not have time to sit and wait for the Permanent Secretary (PS) Treasury to come and give his explanation. The Constitution of Kenya was passed in 2010. That is when we were told that everybody must pay tax including Government institutions. However, this radar arrived in 2006. So, the constitutional excuse being given by the PS is retroactive to this matter. Therefore, if we had time and the period the document was tabled to when it was reviewed, we would be able to deal with the matter. Today they are going to say that they will not give a duty waiver on a matter that came before the new Constitution. That is the law of retroactivity. The Treasury people are not sitting here. We are just talking to ourselves and unless we do what hon. Wamunyinyi has done to the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC), we will just be a talk shop the way we were before the Constitution was promulgated. Those are the issues in relation to my Committee. Let me talk about the issues that touch on the minority including the nominated colleagues. I am a minority on this devolved fund issues. We must accept that whether we bribe the Senate and the Women Representatives, it will not change the constitutionality of Constituencies Development Fund (CDF). Let us look at this thing in a more broad way. The problem of CDF is a structural problem. We need to sit down and stop having this thing that anytime somebody says something that you do not agree with, you start clicking and complaining. It is important---"
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