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    "id": 748327,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
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    "content": "I thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Mine is the happy task of thanking the Hon. Members for very fruitful and helpful suggestions. Sometimes I wish the Senate would find the time to go through the HANSARD and find out what is being said here about this process. I think that has one of the key points that have been raised time and again. We are not reacting. We just are stating the facts as we see them. I really do think that when we come back, maybe through the socio-economic audit, we need to give powers to one House, so that they can have the final say. The buck needs to stop somewhere. The other thing that we need to appreciate, as we said earlier, is that the envelope is small. We imagine that the envelope is big. It is not. I think if you go back to the numbers over the last four years, at least Kshs1 trillion has gone to the country governments and a lot of that money has been spent putting up structures and setting up administrative units. Not as much money has gone into actual development. So, the economy has been affected negatively and the same thing has happened with respect to the National Assembly. As we try to roll out the 2010 Constitution, the Constitution demanded of us that we create new institutions and a lot of money also went into setting up these new institutions, which also has shrunk the kind of funds that normally would be available for development. So, we are not putting in as much money to grow the economy as we imagine we have. So, when the World Bank tells us that the growth of our economy this year would not be 5.6 per cent as we imagined, but rather 5.3 per cent, frankly, I am not surprised. So, we need to come back and look The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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