{"id":1120954,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1120954/?format=json","text_counter":90,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Murkomen","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":440,"legal_name":"Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen","slug":"kipchumba-murkomen"},"content":"It is a paradox that we have a country that is borrowing for everything, including water security. We are borrowing for roads and everything, and then, when we have matters related to democracy, we write letters. I wish the Ministry of Foreign Affairs could be writing letters to foreign countries telling them: “Do not lend any more money to the Kenyan Government,” because the struggle that we have in the Republic is dealing with debts. In fact, if there is a policy, programme or mechanism that is interfering with our democracy, it is debt, because we end up making decisions for the benefit of those we owe."}