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    "id": 859404,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/859404/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mathare, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Oluoch",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Tom Oluoch",
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    "content": "I would like to speak to the issue as to why Parliament has shied away from discussing, debating or legislating on issues affecting them. This is something that I can only attribute to the bad name and mudslinging that is the collective duty of the media and now the presidency. With a lot of respect to my President, the wage bill is not contributed to by MPs. Somebody said it here that even if MPs were to earn zero shillings today, it would not add an inch of a road or reduce the tax burden on Kenyans. I would like to share some statistics on how the Kshs3.02 trillion for the 2018/2019 Financial Year will be shared. Out of that, 54.3 per cent is utilised by the national Executive and 31.3 per cent of that is the Consolidated Fund. The Consolidated Fund is used, appropriated or disbursed by the national Government. Collectively, the national Government controls 85.4 per cent while the National Assembly and the Senate collectively control just a mere 1.4 per cent. We will not be embarrassed into not discussing the welfare and well-being of MPs on the presupposition or argument that MPs are trying to add to their salaries or renumerations. I wanted to also point out the provisions of the Constitution. This Bill does not seek to add anything that is not already an entitlement within the Constitution. In the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution, it states quite clearly in Part 2 that the rights, duties, obligations and existing laws, things that accrued to MPs or anybody under the Constitution continued to be existing obligations after. What we are doing currently in terms of the mileage and other things that will be brought into this Bill are not adding onto our salaries. We are merely entrenching those provisions and entitlements into law, the same way it is entrenched for the Judicial Service Commission and other members of other organs."
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