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    "id": 582341,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musimba",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Patrick Mweu Musimba",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker for this opportunity. I rise in accordance with Standing Order No.245, which is very explicit as to the situation which Hon. Duale has spoken about. We gave these proposals in accordance with Standing Orders; these ought to be there for 24 hours. Ours actually came earlier than that. I had occasion to come through your office, and you gave guidance that I should appear before the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade last night, which I did. The Committee said that we would deliberate on that issue at 10.00 a.m. in the morning. So, they adjourned the meeting; they did not give time because it was already on the Order Paper; they were going to discuss these issues but they had already referred them to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, which needed to give its input. These issues, as the Chair has said, are coming after the fact and negate the whole purpose of our law-making role and the fact that we are not to be driven by external forces. This is because all proposals which the House is seized of are, indeed, seized of the people of the Republic of Kenya. More specifically when you look at Standing Order No. 245 it says very clearly that the Committee, in respect of the Finance Bill, ought to present it in the way it is read in the Budget Speech. The Committee is required to produce a report for consideration by Members. It is supposed to earmark specific things. Just as the Chairman has said, these proposals will affect the macro-economic climate, but we need to go to specific things, which we spoke to during the Second Reading. You will find, for instance, introduction of the new NHIF rates adversely affects Kenyans today, whose vast majority earn below Kshs.35,000. Such levies infringe on Standing Order No.119 and, indeed, Article 24(b) of the Constitution on fundamental rights. These are not limited by any legislative provision in Money Bills in accordance with Article 114."
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