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    "id": 778129,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/778129/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Nuh",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2840,
        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": "I want the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee to listen to me carefully. The Constitution gave the mandate of the budget-making process to Parliament. The Committee should not be subservient to the National Treasury. When you have a provision of the Constitution that has given you mandate with original jurisdiction, then you must exercise that mandate in full. That is the only way you can help the country in development of all kinds. There is a reason why Parliament was given the budget-making process differently as compared to when we were under the previous Constitution. This is where Kenyan people send their problems. The representatives of the Kenyan people are in this House. If you look at this Budget Policy Statement, there are very good recommendations that have been made by the Committee. Will the National Treasury adhere to those recommendations when they bring the Estimates? They will not. This is just a talk show. We are just discussing... We are critiquing the document. When the Estimates come here, the National Treasury will not have taken even a single note of any issue that the Committee or the plenary has recommended. It happened in 2017, 2016 and 2015. Luckily, I was here."
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