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"speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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"content": " Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for finally giving me the opportunity. I have actually been waiting for a while from morning and I am very patient because the issues that I want to say are important to me and I came here to do legislative work. Having said so, I do support the report by the Budget Committee which I am a member. Moreover, I just want to say that I am very happy with the sentiments that were made by Hon. Duale- former Majority Leader especially raising the alarm over the rising debt ceiling in the country. The only challenge - and I actually told him this - I would have wished that he consistently raised it in the past. Not just now, a few months to the general elections. This is because then we sound like we are people who have been told that there is a wolf coming to take the baby then we watch until the baby is in the wolf's mouth and has been partially eaten then we are screaming 'check the wolf has the baby in the mouth!' However, be that as it may, we are here now and with the situation. What do we do? As Parliament, the Constitution gives us a big mandate on what we can do and the more we lament like the rest of the public the more it shows that we do not know and understand our mandate. I think what we The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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