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    "id": 927684,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/927684/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "One House of Kenya’s Parliament cannot be a squatter in another House. Since I joined politics, squatters are evicted forcefully. You do not have dialogue with squatters. You get a court order, go to a police station and get officers to evict them. The Senate and the Council of Governors want to become squatters in the National Assembly. We must evict them. Time has come. The governors’ function in the Legislature is to appear before the Senate’s County Public Accounts and Investment Committee (CPAIC) and respond to audit queries. Governors have no legislative powers. They cannot use the Chief Justice and the process of the Supreme Court to legislate for them. They should resign as governors and become Members of Parliament in the next general elections, if they are interested in legislation. This House took into account the recommendations of the Commission on Revenue Allocation, and we agreed with the figure that was proposed by the National Treasury. On the other hand, the Senate was swayed by the Commission on Revenue Allocation’s recommendation and adopted the figure of Kshs335 billion. Look at even the goodwill we had. The Chair was with me in the mediation. Before the mediation collapsed, the Senate had proposed Kshs327 billion while we had proposed Kshs316 billion. What happened to the Kshs327 billion? They have now gone to Kshs335 billion. We can see that there is a bit of political deceit and dishonesty. They are jokers as a Member is saying. They are jokers with no plan. On page 15, the recommendation of the Report that was adopted by this House, on paragraph 22, provides that any increase in allocation to counties over and above what is proposed in the division of revenue must be met by specific reduction in the Judiciary, Parliament and various ministries. The Accounting Officer for the National Assembly said that he needs more money. The Accounting Officer for the Judiciary, the Registrar, said she wants more money and the Accounting Officer for the national Government, who is the Principal Secretary National Treasury, said that we had cut his budget and wanted more money. The question we need to ask ourselves is that if we increase the money to counties, where will we get it from? Even in our households or kitchen, we do not plan or budget for something we do not have. According to economics, the best you can do is to live by your wallet. If your wallet cannot buy you a cup of cappuccino in Hotel Intercontinental, you should look for kiosks that are around to buy tea. You cannot go to Serena Hotel with a belief that Hon. Junet might come at 5.00 p.m. and start having tea. What happens if he does not come? You will be forced to go to the kitchen and peel potatoes for two hours."
}