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    "id": 1110095,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1110095/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, that Communication is so weighty and is a matter that the Committee on Finance and Budget – I do not see my Chairperson here – has been calling upon the National Treasury and Planning to send that information to the Committee. I would respectively request that instead of the matter being passed on to the Committee - because the Committee is already seized of the matter on public debt - that a time be allocated for this House to debate this issue. Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, even that Statement sent to you is in violation of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act. Parliament is not supposed to be informed of borrowing; it is supposed to be sought to approve borrowing. Now, we are being informed after the fact. I think this House owes a duty to the Government, the people of Kenya and everybody else to bring order in the manner in which we are borrowing resources for public development. Instead of sending the Communication to the Committee, I do not know what the Senate Majority and Minority leaders think, but this is a matter on which this House"
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