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    "id": 562742,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/562742/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, first of all, I understand the Member for Kipipiri is very new in this House. There is no time I have mentioned that I am opposing the Report. That does not mean I cannot criticize it. In fact, I am saying exactly what I said in the Committee. If I am wrong, the Chairperson will confirm. I am the one who even told the Cabinet Secretary that the external loan must be considered within the 10 per cent. I even repeated that you can only ask Parliament to spend under special circumstances and you must seek authority of Parliament. The HANSARD is there. I said it. I know there is no HANSARD recording, but that is what I said. So, whatever you say, I must make my point clearly. Sometimes when you are in the Committee, you express your reservations and no one listens because it is a vote. But these reservations must be expressed. I want to repeat that a lot of provisions that we have made are not necessary. Even Hon. Gichigi cannot tell us whether this money has been spent yet he sits in that Committee. That is the truth. No one told us. The Jubilee Administration, through the Treasury, must respect the budget- making process of this country. For the first time, I am seeing a confused budget process in this country. You cannot even understand where you are going. Today, we were being asked to re-allocate Kshs2 billion for the Mumias Sugar Company, which was meant for rights issue. We were being asked to take it away. Just because the President visited Mumias yesterday, today we were called in a hurriedly convened meeting and asked to return that money. This is not how to run the Treasury."
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