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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
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    "content": "small courts that are in your constituencies. For example, I saw the courtrooms that members of the public have to visit in my friend Hon. Naomi Shaban’s county. That is where the money for the Judiciary is going to improve services to wananchi, and not to these people we do not like, who serve in a street near City Hall. I want to urge my colleagues to appreciate that whereas we might disagree with the Judiciary, cutting over Kshs1.2 billion from their budget--- We have already cut Kshs502 million from their Estimates; this will not be appreciating the need to have a Judiciary that we all have confidence in. I want to give ideas to the Budget and Appropriations Committee on where it can get money from. The Member for Tetu is coughing because he is worried that I am going to mention his area. Where there is too much money, usually there are a lot of loopholes for corruption. So, we can start with the sectors that are managed by the Member for Tetu’s Committee. That is the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the military. There is too much money there. We just need about Kshs1.3 billion. I am saying this with a lot of seriousness. It is not only for the sectors that are covered by the Member for Tetu’s Committee. When we reviewed the budget of the Executive, there were serious loopholes relating to the Appropriation-in-Aid (A-in-A). People are not reporting A-in-A. As an example, my Committee has made one parastatal to report Kshs3 billion. So, can you imagine how much more A-in-A is not being reported and we are not following this up? So, the place to get this Kshs2 billion from is the Executive. Unless they convince us otherwise, that is where the bulk of the money is. Relax my friend Member for Tetu. We might not take everything from you, but money is in the Executive. I want to urge my colleagues that we support Hon. Mutava. He has done a good job. However, on this one of the Judiciary, let us not take money from where we really need to generate confidence. I normally do not talk. I only talked because I felt that we are going to hit an institution so hard not for a crime of their own. It is just for being friends with those Senior Counsel and elders in the Senate. Let us isolate the fact that they are closer to the elderly persons and appreciate that they still need our support as a House. With those very many remarks, I beg to support this Report."
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