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    "id": 802398,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I saw our colleagues over the holiday between the two Speakers. There is nothing unusual between the two Houses. For example, the budget-making process is an exclusive power given to the National Assembly in Chapter 12 of the Constitution and sections 38 and 39 of the Public Finance Management Act. The same Constitution is very clear in black and white that any money Bill must originate from the National Assembly. Hon. Mbadi and I will make sure we defend the Constitution. It is not about the Speaker. In fact, as we move forward, every time a message is read by the Speaker from the Senate, we will scrutinise that Bill and if we feel from the BAC report that it is a money-related Bill then that Bill ought not to have originated from the Senate. The 12th Parliament must live to the fidelity of the Constitution. In the 11th Parliament we were testing the systems, but this time we know our roles and they are defined well in the Constitution. It is the same Members in the 10th Parliament, some of whom are today senators and governors, who sat in the constitution-making committee: Hon. Kiraitu Murungi, Hon. Anyang’- Nyong’o, Hon. Wetangula, Hon. Orengo, name them. They sat in the committee and decided to give themselves the type of Senate that Kenya needs. There is a world of difference between the Senate of the US and the one of Kenya. In other jurisdictions, the Senate is a referral chamber; it is a vetting chamber. But for us, our Senate is only to protect and defend the county governments. So this House must seize the moment. You have powers in the budget-making process, given to you by the Constitution, the Standing Orders and the Public Finance Management Act. Let us make sure that this Budget is followed to where it will go after we appropriate to every village and we make a report to the House every three months, that the amount of money which was supposed to go to a road in Taveta, that road is 50 per cent complete. We should not just sit back here. Members of committees must go to the rural areas. The idea of going to Mombasa over the weekend should be a thing of the past. Committees must go to Suba, Garissa, Mombasa, Gem and see the money that we have appropriated. That is the only way we can…and they can go to Kitale. We must reduce the traffic going to Mombasa and divert it to the villages, counties and constituencies of the Republic of Kenya. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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