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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kang’ata",
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        "legal_name": "Irungu Kang'ata",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. Let me first congratulate the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance and Budget, my friend, Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud, for having agreed to take over this Bill and coming up with very good proposals. Let me start by saying that no one wants to own a Bill. Whenever we up come up with any idea, every Member of Parliament or Senator should be able to receive better and superior ideas from whichever source that information may come from. Therefore, I was more than happy when my friend, Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud, requested that he takes over the Bill. I knew that he is very competent and the Committee would come up with a better Bill. In any event, a Committee Bill is usually easier to navigate the Senate and other parliamentary structures as compared to a Bill that is brought by an individual. The amendments that are contained in this Bill, which contrast my original idea, are good. They are positive because, one, there were concerns that were raised by the Commission on Revenue Allocation, the Treasury and also the Budget Office as to whether this Bill negates the principle of separation of powers. The person who came up with the idea of separation of power is called Montesquieu, a French Philosopher who was living in this world in 1700 or thereabout – the 18th Century. He was arguing that power should not repose in one institution. During that time, every power was fused in the entity that is called the monarchy. Therefore, there were no checks and balances. We had what is called an absolute monarch that would abuse its power. It was not accountable to anyone and not based on meritocracy, but by inheriting. Therefore, he proposed that there is need to separate the three major functions of government, that is, the whole idea of making laws and executing those laws."
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