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    "id": 942168,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. You have actually removed words from my mouth. I sit in the BAC and I know it sat last week. Even though I did not attend, I think one of the ways that I was going to say is that the BAC needs to bring a report before this House, so that we summon the relevant cabinet secretary. I do not need to belabor this point. The only point that I can say is that unlike what the public thinks, this is not a spit on the face of the Judiciary. This is a spit on the face of Parliament. What the Cabinet Secretary is doing is to disregard an authority and order of the House. When we pass the budget, the Cabinet Secretary appears before the BAC and we agree to disagree. Whatever is finally passed by this House has the stamp and authority of this House. That cannot be changed by a mere memo. A memo has no authority of law. It cannot stand. We are putting the Judiciary in a very awkward situation. We are making the Judiciary to be judge over their own cause because there is nowhere else to go. The Legislature has spoken to it. We are now forcing the Judiciary to defend themselves. We will defend the Judiciary because we have spoken as a House and the BAC. This is not an isolated incident. I have observed the same trend is visited upon the same House even using IFMIS. I have spoken about it. I think it was yesterday, when I stated that technology is sometimes not very pro-democracy. When you use IFMIS, you can use it to punish Parliament and to punish other arms or Government. We need to talk in a broader debate about the control the Executive has over budgeting and the process of release of money for other institutions. We may budget, but they start giving you money like Panadol over malaria."
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