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    "id": 609815,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/609815/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Moi",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 305,
        "legal_name": "Gideon Kipsiele Towett Moi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very worthy Motion which from the outset I would like to fully support. I would also like to congratulate those Members who took it upon themselves to call us yesterday from our county duties to come and deliberate on this very important matter. The Constitution grants extensive powers to the National Assembly. However, they must exercise these powers on behalf of the people of Kenya in a just and fair manner. But in the last two weeks, the Constitution has been violated. I say this because of the actions of the National Assembly. What they did is not lost on all of us. The National Assembly has reduced or taken away funds from the Judiciary amounting to Kshs800 million; it has also taken out from the SRC a total of Kshs200 million and the IFMS to a reduction of Ksh325 million and finally to this honourable House, Kshs1 billion. Their action was not based on the budgetary needs nor on any criteria of similar objectives; rather, it was based on what was perceived by various Members to be the conduct of these institutions, including ourselves, against the interest of the National Assembly and its Members. How far from the truth is that? This was a personal vendetta by the National Assembly against these institutions. It was an onslaught against this House. The actions of the National Assembly can be equated to releasing the foxes into the chicken coop. Today we have about Kshs3 billion going to the counties with no"
}