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    "id": 841995,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker for this opportunity. Today, I stand here as a proud Member of the Opposition of this country in the National Assembly. I speak with a heavy heart, but a very clear conscience. The citizens of this country have spoken. They have been speaking for the last two to three weeks. Their position is very clear. We are between a rock and a hard place. How did we get there? This House passed an Appropriations Bill in which, we spent money. Later on, when the Finance Bill came to this House, we made very deliberate attempts to protect the Kenyan citizens and came up with a Finance Bill that did not give enough money on the appropriations that we had already passed in the House. Today, we have an opportunity to correct this situation. My proposal is that Kenya has an extremely ambitious budget. This budget is big because there are issues to do with debt repayments and duplication of roles. We all know that the National Assembly and the Senate do almost the same jobs. The Senate and the county assemblies do the same job. The DPP, the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) kind of duplicate each other. It is important to look at some of those issues with a view of ensuring that we provide direction to the country. The Government has a lot of wastage in terms of trips and huge convoys of the leadership. Recently, the President talked about provision of extra police uniforms. All of us are 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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