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    "id": 606186,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": ".: Mr. Speaker, Sir, before we broke for lunch, I was saying that I witnessed a very sad episode when the Senate Majority Leader was given a dress down by His Excellency the President regarding the reduction of the funds to these bodies. This begs the question whether or not, whilst the President was saying that the Members of Parliament are quarreling while people need services, he understood the concept that the capital allocation to the Judiciary is supposed to serve Kenyans; that the allocation to Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) is supposed to ensure that Kenyans receive financial prudence as per Article 227 of the Constitution. I have counted as many as six to seven Articles of the Constitution that were violated by the act of reducing funds of these bodies. What we have is a very serious issue. This is where you have one arm of Government bullying other arms of Government by wrongfully exercising their legislative power and even worse, without giving the legislative organs of state or Government a fair hearing as to whether or not they need the money that has been reduced, for instance, in the case of the Judiciary. The counties of Makueni, Machakos and Kitui are served by one High Court. The Judiciary had intended to have a court in Makueni and Machakos. This will not happen courtesy of the National Assembly. This case goes on and on in many other counties. When Jubilee came into power, one of the things they told us, I remember reading carefully, was that they intended to have 47 High Courts all over the Republic. How will that happen when the same Government is witnessing – the majority of whom are from that wing of Government – reducing the allocations given to this very important organ? It is a contradiction to have passed the Fair Administrative Action Bill under Article 47 by concurrence of the Senate and National Assembly without amendments and, at the same time, reduce the money that is supposed to ensure that the Fair Administrative Action Bill is implemented. It is a contradiction to have a prayer breakfast of all Members of Parliament and after the prayers, Members of the National Assembly go behind our backs to do what is called “malice aforethought” against us. The malice aforethought which in law we call actus reus was contemplated. You could see that this was something that they had planned. It was planned very well and it The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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