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    "id": 841915,
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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": "Hon. Speaker, it is in the Public Finance Management Act, Section 55(4), that this House has an obligation to balance the budget. We cannot allow the President to sign the Appropriations Bill 2018/2019 or the Finance Bill, if the budget is not balancing. He will be committing an illegality. That is why the President returned the Finance Bill. All of us represent the people out there. I ask our leaders that when we represent the people, let us lead them. Let us not lead the people from the middle when you are inside the crowd. You need to be ahead of the people. From my experience as a Member of Parliament, today, they might ask you to do something, but two months down the line, they will ask you where the road, electricity and the NG-CDF are. We should not give Panadol for something that can be cured by Amoxil. Let us not give short-term treatment. Let us treat what we are facing as a country. Let us look at the debt level. The Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and the Budget and Appropriations Committee will agree with me. Finally, as I support, there are people who are blaming the handshake. The cardinal item in the handshake was that as political leaders, we agree on the interest of the country. So, when Hon. Raila, Hon. Kalonzo and Hon. Mudavadi speak, we listen. Hon. Mudavadi was the first person to support the 8 per cent. So, if you are a Member of the Amani National Congress (ANC), unless you do not have hierarchy…"
}