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    "id": 554657,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Otucho",
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        "legal_name": "Mary Emaase Otuch",
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    "content": "Treasury. A lot of consultations and efforts went into the process together with our Budget and Appropriations Committee and so for the Senate to come later on and allege to add more funds, we were at pain to accept this position because we had already given Kshs2 billion for Level 5 hospitals and we had given so many other additional funds to the county governments. In supporting this Motion, I would like to mention that the additional funds to the counties must come from the Parliamentary Service Commission. Some of that money must come from the Senate. I differ with my colleagues who hold the view that more money should be removed from the Judiciary. It would be unfair to the Judiciary because the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee has already reduced the budget of the Judiciary by Kshs502 million. We are all aware that in the last financial year, the Judiciary had a number of administrative challenges. They were unable to implement most of their development projects. However, the Judiciary is now ready to take off. They have ongoing development projects like the construction of court houses. They are also in the process of rolling out new courts, for which court houses are to be constructed across the country. Therefore, reducing the budget of the Judiciary further by another Kshs1 billion would be unfair; it would be denial of justice to Kenyans. I am not going to support such a move even in the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Let us take some money from the Executive. We have given too much money to the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS). There are so many other areas where we can get that money from. However, we cannot reduce a further Kshs1 billion from the Judiciary because doing so would be unfair to them. With those remarks, I support."
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