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    "id": 1082992,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1082992/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) Wilberforce Oundo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13331,
        "legal_name": "Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo",
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    "content": "We have a situation that seems to be fairly or extremely funny. Most Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and Semi-Autonomous Government Agencies (SAGAs) complain non-stop of lack of disbursement of funds from the National Treasury. There was an argument that there was no absorption of funds which were committed to these particular MDAs and SAGAs. How did MDAs, State Departments and SAGAs spend money that they did not have? We have a situation where the pending bills can be clever creation by the National Treasury to capacitate quite a number of MDAs. As my colleagues have stated here many times, pending bills are killing this economy. The Government is the biggest spender in most third world countries. When it does not spend, there is no money in the economy. The economy contracts continuously. If they do not spend, there is no purchasing power. Many of these traders and suppliers used loans, personal savings and other forms of financing to fund supply and undertake various construction contracts for the various arms of Government. Failing to pay them is a sure way of literary killing and impoverishing them."
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