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    "id": 647730,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/647730/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mulu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Benson Makali Mulu",
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    "content": "Clause 7 is very important in the Bill. It says that all the funds which will be appropriated for the Judiciary in each financial year shall be retained at the end of the year. So, this becomes more like another National Government Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) where once the year comes to an end instead of people saying that money is going back to the National Treasury, the Judiciary will roll over these resources to use in the subsequent year. This is very important because you realise that where they have challenges in the implementation, they will have no need to re-budget. Looking at what happened, for example, in the 2015/2016 Financial Year - we are now and 2013/2014 - the Judiciary was only able to use 50 per cent of the allocated Kshs17 billion. This implies that if this law was in place or if this Bill had become an Act of Parliament the additional Kshs8 billion would have remained in their account. So, if there is a budget for this year, these would be additional resources they would spend more in this financial year."
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