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    "id": 1119290,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1119290/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13165,
        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Over the years, there are two or three gentlemen who for the six or seven budget cycles always make a lot of sense when they appear before the Budget Committee. I forget the exact name of the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO); that Abraham and two or three others. They appear before us and ask us these questions every time. You look and dress like intelligent people, but the things you do are stupid. Who in the world does the things you do? The previous year, you pass a budget with a deficit of Kshs400billion. One time, a young lady appeared before us and told us, “you are all the ages of my father, but I know how to run my house better that you are running the country.” She said that out of the Kshs20,000 she was being paid, she was clever enough to live in a house where she paid rent of Kshs5,000, and access the train, so the transport costs to and from the Central Business District (CBD) did not consume more than Kshs4,000. She was left with something to eat and could save at least Kshs2,000 or Kshs3,000. Much as it looked simple for a complex problem, in essence, that is what we have been unable to do. We are like somebody who earns Kshs20,000, but wants to live in Karen, drive a Mercedes, put on the finest of suits, and each day on a credit card, wants to take lunch at Serena. We want to appear as if we are a big economy. I do not know where we got this obsession to be known as the largest economy in East Africa. What is the motivation? Even if we are known to be the largest economy in East Africa, the rest of the region--- Whenever we go for the East Africa Legislative Assembly (EALA) games that we play every year, they tell us we look beautiful, but are full of debt. We are like those people who retreat to the village every end of year to threaten their former classmates in primary school. They drive huge expensive vehicles all on loans. There is no difference between us and those people to the rest of"
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