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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
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    "content": "Commission? These are some of the challenges we have. We kept going back and forth until finally a decision was made. I am not looking for sympathy, but I am happy to take the flak for responsibilities that are mine. Our job is not easy. When I say we do a fair amount of gate keeping, I actually mean it. We seek to do it with the best intention and with all the information available for the good of our people. I want to thank the hon. Members for the opportunity to serve in this capacity. Let me finish by saying that we have done the best we can; this Report is not perfect. We still want to ask for more time. We really must give the budget-making process more time. We cannot be working with brutal timelines or pressure cooker conditions, as I call them, that make it impossible to reflect responsibly on information that has come to us. We are forced to make decisions within four hours on a Budget of over 1.5 trillion. I am also glad that you have been very flexible because some of your people make it very difficult for us to access Treasury. We have to do letters which then take time. Decisions have to be made within 24 hours. By the time the letter is signed by the Clerk--- For example, we spent four hours in a meeting yesterday with the Treasury, the Controller of Budget and the Solicitor-General. We wanted their view on the Mediation Report in writing. They came back to me and said, “We need that request from the Clerk.” That information was coming to us at 5.00 p.m., yet we were prosecuting this matter today at 10.00 a.m. I would really plead that when it comes to budget-making, let us realize that Government is Budget among other things. There really has to be strategic flexibility for us to do our work. The Solicitor-General told me that he could not write the letter unless the request is made to him formally, which I understood. I would really plead again that some consideration needs to be given, so that we are able to perform our job the best we can. With those very many remarks, I want to thank you personally for your support and thank all of us here. I look forward now to the debate in respect of these Estimates. I am so very glad that we have put to rest the issue of mediation, so that at least, as we said earlier on, the crisis that would have fallen upon our people after today, has now been avoided. We are not going to be out there in high seas without a compass. A decision has been made by the representatives of the people in the Kenya National Assembly with respect to the mediation Bill. I thank you and wish to invite the hon. Isaack Mwaura to second the Motion."
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