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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "Thank you, hon. Speaker. I find what is before us rather interesting. This is because my understanding of what hon. (Eng.) Gumbo is trying to do is that there is no financial effect. This is horizontal mobility. We are increasing or reducing nothing. If this is the precedent we want to set, I do not understand it to be the meaning of the Constitution. However, the activity and the conduct of this Committee is one that should concern us in terms of the Constitution. Away from tinkering with the Estimates from the Cabinet Secretary of the National Treasury, the Committee would be allowed in law, to have a kitty to either help their constituency or my constituency. To me, this is the crux of the matter. It will be nice for us to be clear. This particular event or aspect of Budget process went on last year without a Member picking it up, but it cannot be constitutional. We need to clarify it. It is my thinking that if this particular Committee was to be let free to use Kshs3 billion, it means that if this House was to have no way of moving that particular money around, and the Committee would, then it must be in the custody of the Clerk or the Speaker of the National Assembly. This is my understanding of it. If it were to happen, I would still find that it would be money like our car loans and our health monies, but only for the purpose of this particular Committee to sort out the inadequacies of the Budget. Hon. Speaker, this is a constitutional matter, which we cannot kick away on a technicality. We would be opening a Pandora’s Box today and in the future. The least we The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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