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    "id": 916157,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": "because of the budgetary process and where we were, we cannot do that right now, but we can do it later. In the current Budget, there is no Vote for oversight for the National Assembly. There was a view that we wait for the next budget cycle so as to include it. Most of us in the Budget and Appropriations Committee felt that we symbolically need to have our foot in so that we are able to negotiate. Even if that “foot” is only Kshs50 million, it is a symbolic amount that we can use to negotiate with during the Supplementary Budget. It is not possible to negotiate with our feet outside. I suggest two options. I want to inform Hon. Mbadi, who is the Chair of my party that I am not the one who negotiated for the Kshs50 million but because of other factors I am not able to discuss here, and because of the short period… If you were in the Committee earlier you would know that I was a hardliner. I was not willing to negotiate anything less than Kshs500 million or more. Just the other day, my constituency launched the bursary for the public without me. I had to go into my pocket to pay members of the public to come and receive bursaries. Which national Government functionary does that? You are going to do Government work, you go into your pocket and pay the public for coming and going, pay for the chairs, pay for the tents and pay for every single thing, even photocopying. It is unheard of. We want to play our oversight role well. Many Members are asking why we are not getting Kshs500 million like the Senate. Why not Kshs700 million or Kshs1 billion? If you asked me, the National Assembly should get Kshs1 billion or Kshs1.5 billion. However, at this point, even if you drop it, we cannot incorporate it in the Budget at this point in time. We have two options; to have our foot in with Kshs50 million or to drop it altogether."
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