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    "id": 1000682,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1000682/?format=api",
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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": "This Budget was prepared at a time that we consider very difficult. When we were passing the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) in February, no one imagined that we would discuss the Budget Estimates under the kind of environment that we are in where we face multiple challenges. I do not think that there is any time in the history of this country that we have ever prepared a Budget with the kind of challenges that we have today. We not only have the challenges of the COVID- 19 pandemic or health crisis, but also have challenges of flooding which have never been seen in over 50 years, locust invasion and many others. If you listen to Kenyans, they talk of two things. They want food and jobs. It is through Budget that a nation or Government can provide food on the table for its citizens and help create employment opportunities for the people. Therefore, we expect this Budget to provide food and jobs. In terms of giving more money to the agricultural sector, I want to say candidly that what is in this Budget is still largely business as usual. The same sectors that consume the largest chunk of our budgetary allocations are still the same ones which are consuming even at this moment of crisis."
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