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    "id": 958243,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to second the Motion on the approval of this mediated version of the Division of Revenue Bill. I want to start by thanking our nine Member team from the National Assembly who participated in the mediation together with our counterparts from the Senate who were also nine. However, towards the tail end, we had difficulty raising quorum from the Senate side. At least, our team was faithfully present. If I can remember, in our second last meeting, out of nine Members of the National Assembly, eight of us were present. For the Senators, only two of them were available for that meeting. In our last meeting, out of the nine Members of National Assembly, we were eight in attendance. That showed our commitment, devotion and responsibility to the work that we were given to execute. My take on this matter is that we did a good job in terms of discussing fundamental issues around this matter. Remember, this House passed Kshs310 billion as shareable revenue. The Senate wanted Kshs335 billion. At one point, the Senate came down to Kshs327 billion and as the National Assembly, we decided and agreed to increase the amount to Kshs316 billion before the Executive finally accepted to add another Kshs0.5 billion. Finally, reason prevailed. This matter has been very controversial. It caught national attention. It went to the Supreme Court, although I do not really understand why budgetary issues, matters of allocating funds would find their way to the courts. This matter has become so controversial. It is my hope and prayer that going forward, we will not again find ourselves in this kind of situation. It was very difficult. Emotions ran high, but finally we agreed on this figure. The other thing that we agreed on is the Kshs6.2 billion for leasing of medical equipment. Whereas we are all in agreement that this matter needs to be looked into, we could not just stop the funding because there are some contractual obligations that this country has entered into with 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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