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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu West, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Olago Aluoch",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. You have said it right. The issue that was raised by Hon. Kaluma is very fundamental. The House is asking you to give clarity on what you, all other Members of the House and I know as obvious - one of the responsibilities of this House in budget-making. That should be very clear to all Members. The problem that we have now, which Hon. Kaluma has brought up, is what happens if those in charge of the “purse” of the nation decide on their own without regard to Parliament or the law. One cannot fault the Judiciary. If you are in consultation with senior members of the Judiciary, particularly those who are in charge of finances, you will be informed that the Treasury has consistently ignored the requirements of Article 173 of the Constitution because the Judiciary Fund Act is in force. The Judiciary Fund Regulations have been gazetted and they are also in force. Once Parliament appropriates funds for the Judiciary, it is expected that those funds are then taken from the Consolidated Fund and put into the Judiciary Fund. In actual fact, what happens is that the IFMIS has been configured in such a way that funds are released in bits to the Judiciary, so that they are not able to operate as they should. They are operating at the mercy of the Treasury. What does that mean? It simply means that the independence of the Judiciary is The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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