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    "content": "was supposed to say; “I agree with my brothers and have nothing useful to add.” That is what honourable judges do. But that is for another day. The disappointing part of this Budget, other than the CDF, which most of the Senators have alluded to, is that everything in the Budget increased. The spending of Ministries increased. Domestic borrowing increased. Foreign borrowing increased. Recurrent Expenditure of the National Government also increased. The spending by parastatals increased by Kshs518 billion. In fact, they did not specify how they would spend the money. The people they thought they would punish for asking for Kshs1 billion was the Senate. The other organ they thought they could punish was the Judiciary. The only thing we can do is what Sen. Murkomen has said. I am glad that Sen. Murkomen has agreed to become Paul. The Constitution, by referendum, must be amended so that we do not continue with this sibling rivalry at the expense of Kenyans. We will not do this to teach the Members of the National Assembly a lesson because Kenyans will teach them a lesson sooner rather than later. They must ensure that this will not happen again and that the Majority Leader of this Senate will not receive a dress down from His Excellency the President in public for defending the law. He was defending the law and not himself. In supporting this Motion, we should not belabour too much. We want to ask ourselves when the President was signing this Bill a few hours after it was passed, if somebody advised him accordingly. Maybe he was misadvised. I say so because I have seen a memorandum from His Excellency the President on the Public Audit Bill. That has not come here yet. The fact is that it appears that on some issues concerning legislation, the President has been properly advised. However, on this one, where the National Assembly in one afternoon - maybe it was too hot in that room – violated the Constitution in so many words. The President appended his signature without wondering whether the courts he was demanding to expedite 8,000 cases, how they would do it. The persons he is counting upon to have financial prudence in counties, how are they supposed to do it without IFMIS? We need more than the National Prayer Breakfast where we spend money. I saw you there, Mr. Speaker. I did not attend because I did not think we were very genuine. I am glad I did not attend it. I prayed in the confines of my office. I am glad that I was praying for the National Assembly because all of us must pray for those people, including my own Reverend that I trusted to deliver my soul to heaven."
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