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    "id": 562728,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/562728/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. ole Ntutu",
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Keturet Ole Ntutu",
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    "content": "it will be another white elephant project just like many others that are all over this country. Therefore, these items are needed by this country. Let me also help Members to understand that our Kenya Airways was also going down. When the National Treasury said that they needed Kshs4.2 billion as an emergency loan for the Kenya Airways, if the Government had waited for this House to approve the loan, today we would not have the Kenya Airways. That is why they spent that Kshs4.2 billion. Many Members are asking why the Government used this money. Members who have spoken before me have said that the Constitution allows the National Treasury to use a certain amount of money without the approval of Parliament but later they have to come and ask Parliament to approve. That is what we are doing today. I do not know why anybody would say that we are just rubber stamping. We are not rubber stamping, otherwise we would have done that during the Committee stage. That is why we have brought it here so that Members of this honourable House can debate and approve or reject. That is what we are doing here. I agree totally with this Report. The National Treasury wanted to spend money from the Equalisation Fund. We rejected the spending of money for the 14 counties because they wanted to spend about Kshs3 billion from the Equalisation Fund. We rejected that and said that the money should be left in that account until we have regulations on how the money will be used."
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