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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
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    "content": "I am much obliged, hon. Speaker. It is difficult for me to exceed your exposition and understanding of the law and that of the Leader of the Majority Party on this matter. You are absolutely spot on except that I want to add the following. We are in the process of implementing a new Constitution and I beg that I be heard by those who are contesting that position. The first time we went out as the Budget and Appropriations Committees soon after the elections, we visited about 13 counties because we had made a decision that we would do public hearings at county level. I repeat: Public hearings were to be done at the county level. That is a decision we have made as the Budget and Appropriations Committee. To date, we have visited about 32 or 33 counties. We are determined to go round the 47 counties for purposes of 2016/2017 Financial Year. When we give money for public hearings, that money is given at the county level. It will end up in a constituency but the platform is the county platform. After our first visit, we came back. I was privileged to lead a delegation that went to Isiolo County and we came back. We were all very new; not quite knowing what to do with those public hearings, save that they were required by the Constitution and rightly so. I pleaded with my Committee that if we do nothing else as the Budget and Appropriations Committee, let us take the killer bridge in Isiolo and let us recommend to the House that we give that bridge Kshs200 million."
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