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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I thank you for allowing the Budget and Appropriations Committee, through the Chairman, to bring clarity to the decision that the House made last week. I appreciate this because it has been said by Kenyans and we work on behalf of the people of Kenya. Therefore, if there are genuine questions, they need to be responded to. I know that there are people who have raised concerns with what we did purely out of malice. There could be genuine cases of Kenyans who did not understand what the Budget and Appropriations Committee did, which Parliament approved. I do not want to go into the details, but I want to say two things. It is important for those who are in the know to tell the public the truth. I will not sit in a Budget and Appropriations Committee, and by extension the National Assembly, just to do things to hit back at any institution. When we sat as the Budget and Appropriations Committee, we were guided by the facts when we sought the Kshs3.3 billion after it became apparent that there was need to agree with the Senate on their recommendations on the Division of Revenue Bill. We asked ourselves where we could quickly get funds to finance that deficit. As the Chairman has said, we have a public report on the Judiciary that it has only absorbed 56 per cent of its budget up to this time. The Kshs1 billion that we re-allocated was not meant for the operations of the Judiciary. So, whoever 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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