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    "id": 916203,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
        "slug": "junet-sheikh-nuh"
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, first, I am very happy today because we have been saying that this House is superior in budget making. We are discussing Members here who cannot defend themselves. We want to allocate money to them and we are telling them how much we can give them. Hata tunaona haya kusema kweli. They were saying that these two Houses have equal powers but today it is the National Assembly discussing how much money to give to the Senate. Today, I am very clear in my mind which House is superior to the other. This Senate Fund, in accordance with the amendment that has been brought by the Chairman, I remember even in the last budget we had put more money than Kshs500 million. I think it was Kshs900 million and we still gave the condition that regulations must be brought to the House before the disbursement of the funds. They did not know that regulations are supposed to be done only by Cabinet Secretaries. They sat somewhere and wrote their own regulations and brought them here. We dismissed them. I do not know whether you remember. We told them things are not done this way: “Colleagues we respect you a lot but things are not done in this manner.” I want to bring it to the attention of my colleagues that there is no cause for alarm. Let these things go through the way they are. The conditions are still the same. The money is less than what we gave them in the last Budget. We have even gone further and put what is called seed money for the National Assembly. In the National Assembly, that is how all the monies began. They began as seed money. I am told when they were beginning NG-CDF, they began with seed money of Kshs6 million. Today, they are talking about Kshs130 million. This seed money has a lot of hidden issues that Members need to keep quiet about for now until the seed germinates and becomes maize that you can eat."
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