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    "id": 797361,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/797361/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "I just wanted to get two clarifications from the Leader of the Majority Party. First, I would like to know whether the Cabinet Secretary met the deadline when he forwarded those Estimates to Parliament. The Leader of the Majority Party needs to communicate to the National Treasury that they need to bring those Estimates in good time so that they are tabled in Parliament before the end of April. Today is 3rd May 2018. Once those Estimates are submitted to Parliament by the Cabinet Secretary, the Leader of the Majority Party can decide to take a month with them. What safeguards are there to ensure that before the end of April, the Estimates are tabled in Parliament so that the House and the Budget and Appropriations Committee are seized of them? If you read the provisions of the Constitution, it says that immediately the Estimates are tabled, the Budget and Appropriations Committee is supposed to take charge and start looking at them. I just want to cure mischief where the Leader of the Majority Party may decide to stay with those documents - even for one-and-a-half months - and submit them to the House towards the end of June and we will not have time to interact with them."
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