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    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "The point is that our role, as Parliament, is to ensure that we clean up the system. This also speaks to the fact that we have really abrogated ourselves; in fact it is a derogation of the Constitution. The power of the purse vests with Parliament, but it has been taken away and it has been misused by the Executive. Under Articles 110 and 114 of the Constitution, the national Treasury is supposed to be independent of the national Government. It is not supposed to be an appendage of the national Government. That is where the problem is; the combination of the Ministry of Finance and the national Treasury. I am on record as having warned Henry Rotich that we were going down to the drain. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we need to get out of the fear that we have, even us, as Parliamentarians. This is because it has been proved that 7 out of 10 Members of Parliament (MPs) do not come to Parliament anyway. You cannot tell me that those people are bad guys; that they do not work for their people, and that they are not motivated to make change. It is elections, anyway. Maurice Mumbo says, “Politicians are for elections, but leaders are for generations.” Mr. Speaker, Sir, if we continue going the route we are going, we will be going into a hole very fast. We must rise to the occasion. We must be ready to pay the ultimate price, because how will we leave a country with a first world Constitution that does not speak to the real life of a people? How we will be judged by future generations? All of us are participating, because we would want to protect our safe zones. Right now, it is the Judiciary. If you look at the budget cuts, the Judiciary and Parliament account for only 2 per cent of the total budget, but the cuts are 9 per cent. Why is it disproportionate? When you look at that, what will be politicized is what seems to be favoring MPs and Judges. Right now the dream of the Judiciary is to ensure that we have High Courts in all the 47 counties. However, we have not seen an appointment of Judges that is concomitant to that endeavor. The Appellate Judges are yet to be appointed; so what is happening? What is this lacuna in law? What is this that we are fearing? We need to ensure that we rise up to the occasion. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Leader of Minority is not here, but if we continue this way, I see Kenyans going back to the streets, because you can only push people for so long. You can only do so much. Those of us who are called to stand for justice, we will stand for that justice. We will speak truth to power, because that is the only way we will liberate our country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to support."
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