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    "id": 936777,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/936777/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Gitonga",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, this House should not be engaged in committing illegalities. The Constitution is quite clear especially on the Judiciary. It is Article 173 of the Constitution. Once the Chief Registrar presents estimates to this House and this House approves those estimates, the funds so approved are moved from the Consolidated Fund to the Judiciary Fund. Once that is done, those funds are not available for cuts. The funds are already moved. The only thing this House can do is to enhance the allocation, not to cut it. This morning, as the presentations were being made to us, we were shocked that they were proposing cuts to a fund that, under the Constitution, cannot be cut. So, we will be urging the House that we should not agree to any cuts of the Judiciary funds because they are protected by the Constitution."
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