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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Mahamud",
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        "legal_name": "Mohammed Maalim Mahamud",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not need to belabor this matter. Members are familiar with this Bill. Initially, when we went to mediation, we even went down to about Kshs327 billion but now we are going back to the advice given to us by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA). The other day, somebody tried to blame the CRA for all the confusion. CRA is a constitutionally mandated institution to advise Government on matters of--- It has the authority to advice. We need to go by that. The argument today is that we are dealing with zero based budget. That means that you do not increase. It is not incremental but zero based. That argument is not correct. It is zero based, yes, but you must justify all the expenditure and figures that you put in Budget so that it makes sense. Whatever does not make sense, we do not want to accept it. We are Parliament, and the national Treasury does not make laws, but we do. I appeal to our sister House to be pragmatic and come out of it and realise that that they are Parliament and defenders of the Constitution but not defending an institution of Government that wants to be rogue so that we know that they can just kick everybody around. With those many remarks, I beg to move and ask Sen. Wetangula to second."
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