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    "id": 1056529,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rongo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Paul Abuor",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Odalo Mak' Ojuando Abuor",
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    "content": "them to account and ensure that whatever is recommended in the Budget Policy Statement and all other recommendations by the Budget and Appropriations Committee are adhered to. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in the last two weeks when we were in Mombasa doing the pre-budget conference, the Governor of Central Bank of Kenya joined us and there was the issue of national debt. The question was whether we are broke as a country. I remember very well the Governor of Central Bank saying we are not broke as a country. As a country, our biggest mistake is that we are spending beyond our means. If you find we are spending beyond our means, then we create a deficit. When you create a deficit, you have to finance that deficit. To finance that deficit we keep on borrowing as a country. That is why we should cut our cloth to our size. This is a big challenge not only to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, but also to us as Parliament. It is time we also own up as a House. We are letting this country down because the Executive cannot overspend. It only spends what has been approved by Parliament. Let us call a spade a spade. We have to take our business very seriously as a House and turn down requests from the Executive that we believe drive this country to continue borrowing to a point that we are now going to surpass the Kshs9 trillion that we had approved for the Executive to borrow. With those few remarks, I support the BPS."
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