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    "id": 105800,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/105800/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Okemo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 198,
        "legal_name": "Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I ask myself the question: If the Government is talking about the Vision 2030 and has put benchmarks, are we really going to attain that growth if we continue to spend 97 per cent of our discretionary Budget on Recurrent Expenditure? I think this is a big challenge for the Minister for Finance. We would like to see growth, but not just growth per se . But we want growth with creation of employment. At the moment, we have a problem in this country. Even the times we have achieved very high growth rates, up to seven per cent, if you look at the employment creation, it was a very small percentage. So, we must come up with policies that do not only create growth, but they must also create employment to go along with it. There are youth who are well educated but have nothing to do. I think the KaziKwa Vijana Programme is a joke. It is a very poorly thought out plan, poorly implemented and a waste of money. It should never have happened. It is either we have that and it is well planned so that it creates that impact that is required rather than getting money to go into the pocket of"
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