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    "id": 553295,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Midiwo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Washington Jakoyo Midiwo",
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    "content": "I am on a point of order, please. The bursary which we have been accustomed to – it has been there even before I came to Parliament - is missing currently in your constituency. I am not sure if Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee are not getting those phone calls. Again, we cannot preside over Budget where we have total power to make and omit bursary money. We need to go back and consult within reason. We have to do that. It is our mandate and it behoves us. I want to insist on a negotiated Budget. When the Committee goes and slashes the budget of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs---I am now in the know that even the money for voter registration has been slashed and yet the Constitution talks of continuous voter registration. Hon. Chepkong’a and his Committee, thanks to their tenacity, have sat and said that we are putting in money for voter registration as per the requirement of the Constitution. Where would another Committee get the mandate or even the idea of just slashing? Where? Please, just indulge us. What we are doing here is fundamental to the future of the Budget-making process of our country. So, in order to meet all interests and take the country along so that nobody is offended, I want to plead with Hon. A.B. Duale to allow us to be recalled here on Wednesday, next week. I have consulted with Members. Many Members want the long weekend because it is a holiday on Monday. Members can come back here on Wednesday. If it is one day, you can even make it to be on Thursday as per the wishes of the House in consultation with the Speaker. Hon. Jakoyo, for President! Thank you, very much"
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