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    "id": 840759,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/840759/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "You know I have never been in the teachers’ union, so I do not panic. And I have enough shocks. So, Hon. Milemba, I am not the Teachers Service Commission Chief Executive Officer who you could intimidate. I am the Member for Garissa Township. This figure of Kshs35 billion was factored in the Budget of 2018/2019 by this House itself. Further extension of this will create a huge deficit in the Budget that this House has passed. This morning we were dealing with that deficit. In the course of approving the Finance Bill, 2018, the National Assembly removed other policy measures that could have given us more revenue. In sum, the Finance Bill, 2018 as currently approved by the House, has created a financial gap of Kshs48.6 billion. This is in addition to Kshs18.9 billion which was the gap that we passed with the Appropriation Bill of Financial Year 2018/2019, which we are amending this afternoon, when we get copies. The question that we beg to ask ourselves is that we are, therefore, looking at a budget-funding gap of Kshs67.5 billion in Financial Year 2018/2019 from this amendment. If you look at the Public Finance Management Act Section 50(4), it is incumbent upon this House to pass a budget that balances. There are a number of people who asked: Why are we"
}