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    "id": 578964,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/578964/?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": "Regarding what Hon. Chepkong’a has raised, Article 135 is correct because it gives any House of Parliament the powers to summon any person to appear before it. Any House is neither defined nor limited. Therefore, if you read that Article alone, then Senate is perfectly in order to summon any person. However, the question is when you are overseeing or summoning any officer, there must be a reason. That person is exercising accountability to the summoning authority. That is what then takes you to the responsibility of both Houses because the National Assembly has the responsibility to oversee national revenue. By the way, there is no limit. It does not say that it is only national revenue allocated to national Government and its organ. It is national revenue. Therefore, if you read it that way, then the National Assembly can even oversee money that is allocated to the counties and how it is used. For decency and also to avoid duplication of responsibilities, the National Assembly has elected - which I think is the right way - to restrict itself only to overseeing national Government and its entities."
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