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    "speaker_name": "en. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, once again, I apologise for my failure to use the right words. I limited myself to understanding Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry and so on. I was not too keen on English. This is why I fail you. Let me move from there and go to another line as my Chairman is watching me. When we were negotiating hard in mediation, we were told in print that only Kshs12 billion had been set aside for national irrigation. In the Budget which the National Assembly passed, it has now been given Kshs13.5 billion. My question is: If money for health held at the top has gone up to Kshs59 billion, money for National Youth Service (NYS) has gone up from Kshs6.5 billion to Kshs25 billion and irrigation from Kshs12 to Kshs13.5 billion, is the document that the President appended his signature the same one that passed through this House and we debated it? Is it the same document that the Mediation Committee discussed? The answer is no. Therefore, I want my good lawyer, Sen. Sang and my friend, the “Duke of Makueni”, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., to guide me that it is in keeping with the provisions of the law and, therefore, the Constitution that a document that has figures that were never discussed in this House or before the Mediation Committee has now been signed into law by the President. Has something not been breached? If so, do we not have room even just for purposes of making a statement to approach the courts and ask them to tell the President, “No”? Finally, it looks like some people think that we are here as Senators because we are weak. We are not. If they think this is a House of weak politicians, let them approach the Senate. We will face them as Members of the National Assembly or governors. Let us see who will defeat me in Kakamega County."
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