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    "id": 553250,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, unfortunately, I could not attend the sitting this morning because I had some urgent matters I was dealing with. Having gone through the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, I noticed that there are very serious discrepancies. I have a lot of respect for the Committee Chair. Hon. Speaker, it will be useless for us, as Members of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee, to travel from our constituencies to Nairobi, spend our valuable time on a sitting and pass resolutions, only for another parliamentary committee to reject our Committee’s resolutions. We are not mad people. Some of us are lawyers. If we do not have anything to do, we have no business attending committee meetings. We can as well leave the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee matters of dealing with the Budget to the Budget and Appropriations Committee. We do not have a problem. I will not waste my time. I spent a lot of time in the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee, discussing the Budget and then I come here in the morning and, even without courtesy, I am told that the Budget allocations that we proposed to be removed from the Judiciary Vote--- We did a lot of examination and found out that in the Development Expenditure for last year alone, the Judiciary just spent 61 per cent. There are other Departments which have serious"
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