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    "id": 809528,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Ng’ongo",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "were only advising them to proceed with compulsory acquisition. What have we employed the AG to do? I can even offer that opinion as well. Why do we need legal minds to do that? The investigation must not only end at the NLC, it should go a step further to the AG and the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Why the National Treasury is standing out for me is because this money was paid out of funds that were not available. As we speak, the people of Kenya have incurred an expenditure which is illegal. Parliament has not approved the Kshs1.5 billion that was paid to these crooks. The Kshs1.5 billion was supposed to be sanitised through Supplementary Budget which we rejected as Budget and Appropriations Committee and finally as a House. I am a finance expert; I know very well that for any expenditure to be incurred under Article 223 of the Constitution, the CS for National Treasury, Henry Rotich, must authorise. For him to allow expenditure of any amount that is not appropriated is not a walk in the park, you have to convince the National Treasury beyond reasonable doubt that that expenditure is important, urgent and cannot wait. Tell me how paying some individuals, even if it was a legitimate payment, who lost the ownership and occupation of land so many years back could not wait for normal budget process and parliamentary approval. Someone somewhere was broke and could not wait for this process. So, a need was found to spend this money through Supplementary Budget. The Treasury must explain their role. Let me confess this and it is not something secret. When we were in the Budget and Appropriations Committee meeting where we invited the CS to come and justify this Kshs1.5 billion in the Supplementary Budget, the CS sat there as if he was confused and told us he needed to consult with the line Ministry what the money was all about."
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