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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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    "content": "stakeholders, among others the National Treasury, Controller of Budget, Commission on Revenue Allocation and the Intergovernmental Budget Economic Council (IBEC), had actually taken place. We were at pace to remind ourselves that once the law puts in place an institution then we need to respect the work of that institution. The institution we call IBEC is in Section 187 of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act. In that law, it is clear that the people who sit around the table are the managers of our resources at levels of Governments, the national Government and the county governments. Indeed this forum is chaired by the Deputy President, and I am reliably informed that at some point in the discussion this year, the matter went further and there was an inter-agency council that was chaired by the President himself. So, a lot of negotiations went on between the managers of our resources because that is what the Executive does, managing our resources, not all that well sometimes, but that is their mandate as given to them by the Constitution. Hon. Speaker as we support the report of the Mediation Committee, it will be very important in future to remind ourselves that if work has been done by others. we need to eat humble pie and find ways of doing our part in a manner that does not set the country adrift to where it is now. I am waiting to see what will happen today, that is whether we shall support this mediation report or not. I plead with the other Chamber to see the need to understand and appreciate the role of IBEC since the governors sit on it, committee executive members of finance sit pm on it and the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) sits on it; it is my plea that we all appreciate our mandate. It is important to accept the mandate given to us by the Constitution. I got the sense that some of us have not quite understood, appreciated or accepted our mandate. In not accepting our mandate, we fail to appreciate the mandate given to others, notwithstanding the fact that we have the discretion given to us by the Constittuiion to amend what comes to us as Parliament. But even as we do so, we need to be very careful not to cause problems in appropriating resources. I think wisdom demands that we give more respect to the mandates given to other institutions by law. Hon. Speaker, were we not to support this Motion, we would throw the country into a legal quagmire. Let me make it very clear that unfortunately neither the Constitution nor the enabling statues or our own Standing Orders created a fallback position should the mediation process collapse. I repeat that there is absolutely no fallback position created by either the Constitution, statues or our own Standing Orders. If this Bill is defeated, the consequences will be calamitous. We shall be in uncharted territory, out there in the wilderness without a compass."
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