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    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "The Leader of the Majority Party is holding another baraza here which Senators want to hold. I need to be understood properly. Members of Parliament, especially those of us from the 290 constituencies need to understand. You have other elected leaders. We have the governors whom we know very well take public money and conduct Harambees and hold meetings with them illegally. Almost all of them do that. You have the Senators who also want money to go and hold those barazas . You also have our colleagues, 47 MPs, whose allocation is so liberal. In fact, for the first time, I have seen a case where you can call women in a market and use government money to give them handouts of Kshs1,000 and they go back home. That cannot happen with scarce government resources. Look at the NG-CDF that people keep on talking about. It has a proper procedure of procurement. In fact, you have an independent committee and those MPs who have ever tried to get involved are always in problems, but now your other colleagues will be calling people and giving them lunch allowance and transport back. How many people will attend your meetings? Hon. Speaker, you know we are exposing ourselves to a situation where you will call a meeting to explain yourself to people and you will have five people. No one will come to your meetings if when they go to the governor’s meeting, they are given pocket money. The women representative gives them handouts. Senators now are going to give them handouts. In fact, soon members of county assemblies will start giving handouts they will get from governors. The only person who will not be giving money is the Member of Parliament. You will have problems. So, you have to give money for oversight to everybody who is a Member of Parliament. I do not know where this distinction of Senate and National Assembly is coming from. My Chair has come with a figure here. You know my Chair surprises me at times. I do not know where he got the Kshs50 million from because I sit in the Budget and Appropriations Committee. I think they have just consulted with Hon. Millie and agreed on Kshs50 million. That is not the figure we talked about, but if this House can agree to start with Kshs50 million, I have no problem as long as we have a budget line. We can see how to deal with that budget line going forward. I am okay with this one for the Senate but let us be realistic. Why do we not get regulations on how the Kshs500 million will be spent? If not, then we give them a realistic figure. You cannot give people another Kshs600,000 per month for nothing. Maybe if you give them Kshs100,000 or Kshs200,000, I can understand. But Kshs600,000 no! So, if there is no regulation, then the Kshs500 million is too much. It has to come down to Kshs100 million or Kshs50 million. In fact, I think this Kshs50 million was mistaken. It should have been the Senate 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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