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    "id": 1077121,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kwanza, FORD-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ferdinard Wanyonyi",
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        "legal_name": "Ferdinard Kevin Wanyonyi",
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    "content": "how much debt we owe externally and how much debt we owed domestically. They are huge debts. Therefore, we have all manner of challenges, and you know it. We do not have to be told that banks and other financial institutions are now going for recovery. Of course, we know that even as they go for recovery, there is nothing to recover. We expected this Budget to give some incentives with the Government proposing ways of regenerating economic growth and raise revenue. There is nothing here. I have not seen anything. I have read through this and I have not seen anything here. The other thing I want to point out is on the ongoing projects. For example, on communication, I heard the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Housing and Public Works lament that in my own county, we have roads that are supposed to be used to transport goods and services to areas where we can get revenue. Some of those road projects have stalled. How are we going to raise money to finish the infrastructure projects? Again, it is a question for which people are waiting an answer tomorrow to see what there is. I do not think there is any fundamental change that is going to happen overnight to change some of the concepts that we have been exposed to today. I have heard of cases where we have borrowed money – let us not forget this is our country and people are waiting – externally supposedly for putting in place productive economic installations, but the money has been stolen and misappropriated. What do we do about it? You and I are now forced to pay. I have not seen anything over the years like the case of Ferdinand Wanyonyi, a Member of Parliament, who was found guilty for having misappropriated money, this is what we have done. We have cases like that. This is our country. Let us talk facts. We have money that has been borrowed, misappropriated and the people in charge have not been exposed and some of them are still in office. Again, what have we done to safeguard this? We have stalled projects. As I speak like this, we export coffee and tea out there. We have been exporting products of dairy farming. We have a huge market in the Middle East. I was in the Middle East as I had an interest there. We were exporting powdered milk to Middle East from this country in the past, during Kibaki’s time. Today, I can tell you that our market for powdered milk in the Middle East has been taken over by Uganda. Of all places, Uganda has taken over our export of powdered milk to the Middle East because of laxity. There is no incentive. I had a project of raising the production of milk, in my sub-county. There is no incentive. I went to a parastatal called AFC. Sorry to mention them here. I know people are looking at us to see what we have done. The AFC was supposed to spur the economy by encouraging farmers. I have been there for the last eight months to get just Kshs6 million to buy dairy animals from the South Rift and see if they can increase the production of milk so that I can export to the Middle East and get some income. Nothing! We cannot even export anything finished. We are sending raw materials for other people to deal in manufacturing, for other people to enjoy the services of our people. We have a problem."
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