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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwaura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I stand guided. I rise to second this amended Motion on the Report. If you look at these appropriations, even with the noted issues, this House has actually risen to the occasion through the Committee by ensuring that we have actually got money from other allocations for the deficit that would have, otherwise, arisen due to what had been demanded for the counties. This is very important, especially when we look at the Kshs1billion that was supposed to go to the Senate. We actually have been treated to some charade between those who are nominated and those who are elected in terms of how that money was going to be shared. They have no proper use of that kind of money, I think it is very important that this money goes to where actual need is. Looking at the way we have also got money to cater for that deficit, it can be said that it is upon the various organs of Government to consult exhaustively in order to ensure we do not end up with the stalemate that we have found ourselves in; people should know that if we do not agree, it means that they can also have their money cut to finance a deficit that arises. While seconding this Motion, I stand to offer my opinion that if you look at the history of the Division of Revenue Bill you will realise that the first year we got it right. We properly appropriated funds and the President went ahead and assented to the Bill and it became law. The situation obtaining currently is one that encourages the Senate to ask for more money in future with the anticipation that there will be mediation thereafter. This must be discouraged at all costs. I do not think that the framers of the Constitution were wrong when they provided in Article 95 that we are the ones who are going to do the Division of Revenue Bill. I stand to wonder whether, even if we have resolved this crisis, we have not created another precedent, more so looking at how, for example, the Division of Revenue Bill was introduced to the Senate in the last financial year. If you also look at the macro-economic situation that is obtaining, this country around February of this year increased its debt. The result has been that the Kenyan shilling has depreciated very markedly. That is because we do not seem to have enough reserves either in gold or foreign exchange to cushion our shilling. The only recourse is for us to increase our own productivity. If you look at the things that give us foreign currency, you will see that we get a lot of money from remittances, but these monies are The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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