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    "id": 962031,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Bill with amendments. There is reason as to why people refer to the National Assembly as the ‘Lower House’. If you get into the House, there is a big hall where they must all fit. The ground is lower there and that might be the reason. People are caught up in this issue of unicameralism, as I have said here before. They have not woken up to the reality that we have two Houses now. It is that same problem we have with the national Treasury which seems to confuse its mandate under the Public Finance Management Act (PFM) because of the term “national” to mean national Government. May be, it should actually be called statutory. We are talking about Kshs335 billion. We have a scientific formula where Kshs314 billion is 6.9 per cent inflation. We have been magnanimous to say that we even do core inflation of 4 per cent. However, the National Assembly seems to be confusing this whole exercise as if we are in some butchery where we are tearing apart some carcass. It is really shameful. There is nobody who shares money. There is no donation here. We are not in a harambee where they say we will give you this, take that. If we were to cut down on the various expenses within the ambit of the national Executive, we would get money that we require. In fact, the issue of national interest has never been properly canvased because the national Government has confused national The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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