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    "id": 987924,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/987924/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eldama Ravine, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Moses Lessonet",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Lessonet",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank you. As I second, this House should know that the Budget and Appropriations Committee was not happy about the application of Article 223 of the Constitution by the National Treasury. It came to our notice during consideration of the Supplementary Estimates that the application of Article 223 is not always in accordance with the law. Every time after we pass the Budget, there is another budget being operated under Article 223 of the Constitution and, by the time it comes to this House, it has already been spent. We are cautioning the Executive and the National Treasury to minimally use Article 223 of the Constitution. In this Supplementary Budget, there is an attempt to sort out pending bills. I am saying there is an attempt because we look forward, as we go to the main Estimates probably next week and next month, to seeing more resources being set aside for sorting out pending bills, especially those bills which affect the common Kenyans like our local contractors. In the Supplementary Estimates, we noted that close to Kshs50 billion will go towards pending bills at the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure. With those comments, and because of time, I want to beg Members that, let us support these Supplementary Estimates. You have heard the comments on CDF. You have heard about donations by this House towards combating COVID-19. The only thing we need to do now so that we can win the war against this pandemic is to support these Supplementary Estimates. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with that, I second."
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