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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Sakaja",
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        "legal_name": "Johnson Arthur Sakaja",
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    "content": "Hon. Jakoyo has raised a very fundamental question. It is two years since we started this new role of making Budget by Parliament. The one thing that needs to be clarified is the relationship between the Departmental Committees and the Budget and Appropriations Committee as regards the budget-making process. You have heard Hon. Chepkong’a very emotionally expressing his frustrations over the length of time he has taken in his Committee. Many other chairmen concur that we take so much time with Members. Even during recess hon. Members have sat down and listened to officials from Ministries and departments. Cabinet Secretaries have come and they have given their submissions. I do not think it is correct that such deliberations can just be arbitrarily ignored by the sitting of one Committee. This is because the precedent we will set is that these Cabinet Secretaries and heads of these departments will directly be going to lobby with the Budget and Appropriations Committee. There will be no need for them to talk to the different departmental Committees."
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