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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "the Government to pay the teachers of this country given negotiations are ongoing between the TSC and the teachers. Hon. Speaker, I am raising that with you, that we may look for a way of making this efficient. Maybe we can involve more than one Committee, namely the Budget and Appropriations Committee and another Committee to transact these Bills. I can see the Budget and Appropriations Committee having a challenge. I have just listened to Hon. Waluke, who was up to recently a very committed Member of my party - I have started doubting his serious commitment to my party. My concern is that he talked about the Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee allocating themselves Kshs60 million. What does that mean? The Kshs60 million is such a huge amount that if I allocated it to myself, it should be seen. I sit in that Committee and I have never allocated myself Kshs60 million and I do not see how a Member or Members of a Committee can allocate themselves Kshs60 million. Maybe he meant to say something, but he has not said it. It is not really my business to help him say what he wanted to say. Sometimes when you have something to say and probably you lack ways of saying it, you can request your colleague to say it. You see, what is going on out there now is that Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee have allocated themselves some money. I really do not know what that means. As a matter of fact, Members of our Committee cannot allocate any money without the approval of this House. So, we need to understand the House procedures. This is the only House that allocates money. Committees only facilitate the work of this House. So, I just would want my friend to probably do things with moderation and be a little bit accurate. I would urge him to come back to my party, so that he could get some tuition on some of these things very easily. When he is out there, I can see him getting lost."
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