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    "id": 966885,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 15,
        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
        "slug": "aden-duale"
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    "content": "THAT, this House orders that the business appearing as Order Nos.15, 16, 17 and 18 be exempted from the provisions of Standing Order 40(3) being a Wednesday Morning, a day allocated for business not sponsored by the Majority or Minority Party or business sponsored by a Committee. We have some key national agenda in Order No.15. If you look at No.15, it is the approval of the Controller of Budget (CoB). As we sit here today, there is no CoB since Wednesday last week. So, even resources to Parliament cannot be approved until we deal with Order No.15 and maybe he is gazetted and sworn in today. Order No.16 is about supplementary appropriation which is, again, key. Those of us who were in the House yesterday said that even our own National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), from which we can get money to build more classrooms and pay bursaries, is important. Then, Order No.17 is also important because our parliamentary nominee who sits on the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) has been absent for the last one year. So, we want to approve Hon. Amina Abdalla to represent Parliament alongside Hon. Dalmas Otieno. We have two nominees and they can represent our interests as Parliament. This is a Morning Session which is always left for business sponsored by Private Members. I want to indulge the House. The House Business Committee (HBC), chaired by the Speaker, in its wisdom, proposed that we deal with those three matters that are urgent. In fact, they are four. If you look at Order No.18 on examination of the financial statements for the national Government for the Financial Year 2016/2017, we need to approve it before we go on recess, so that they can be used in the formulation of the next budget that begins in March, so that counties can get more resources. The resources for the NG-CDF and other institutions can go up. So, the four orders are key. Being the second last day of this session, I want to ask the Members to pass them. As I move, I want to ask Hon. John Mbadi, a Member of the HBC, to second."
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