{"id":107020,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/107020/?format=json","text_counter":16,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Dr. Oburu","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":194,"legal_name":"Oburu Ngona Odinga","slug":"oburu-odinga"},"content":"Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Government is divesting. This is a policy of the Government for very many years. When shares of the Government in a given parastatal are sold, they are not necessarily meant to support the deficit in the Budget. Some time we use the funds to reduce our domestic borrowing which has a very heavy charge on our funds. It is very expensive money."}