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    "id": 908804,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/908804/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Alego-Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Onunga Atandi",
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    "content": "Secondly, there is the misuse or abuse of Article 223 by the Executive. This Article’s intention is to help the country address emergencies and calamities. However, we have cases where this Article has been abused by the national Treasury by allocating resources that ideally should not fall under this particular Article. We have a case where resources have been allocated for travelling in terms of luxurious holidays. Most recently, we saw the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) buying fuel guzzlers under a budget item which had not been appropriated. The argument they have given us is that they used Article 223 of the Constitution. As Parliament, we must be very vigilant and stop the Executive from misusing or abusing this Article to spend resources which this Parliament has not allocated."
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