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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Let me leave it for the discussion of the WhatsApp group where we are together. That is on a light note. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this BPS which is a very important agenda that brought us to the Floor of this House. This BPS is significant in the sense that it is the last under the presidency of President Uhuru Kenyatta. Therefore, it gives us a good review of the performance of this administration, especially in the last five years. This BPS is important because through it, we are able to see what is the guiding principle or the policy position of the Government in the various issues it is trying to pursue. What you would expect from this BPS is a culmination of a 10 year programme of President Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidency and the 5 years, especially when you talk about the Big Four Agenda. Mr. Speaker, Sir, unfortunately, scanning through all these documents, little is said about the Big Four Agenda. Little emphasis is given to the important programmes that were promised to the people of Kenya in 2018 when this administration after winning elections and shaking hands to form a quasi-government of national unity with shared power between President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister, Raila Odinga. Since 2018, it has been a very sad story of Government programmes, particularly the Big Four Agenda which we promised the people of Kenya to be implemented in the second term of President Uhuru Kenyatta, has taken a back seat. As you know, there has been a chase or mirage known as BBI which is anchored on changing the Constitution to create positions for us who are in political power. This BPS speaks directly to things that are real about the status of our economy. It speaks about the status of debts, the economic growth and how we have stagnated. It also paints a very gloomy picture about the future of our shared resources to county governments from the national Government and towards development, particularly as a result of debt that is sky-rocketing. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when I moved a Motion in this House to extend the debt ceiling, the argument that was given by the National Treasury was that we were doing so, to restructure our debts, create an avenue for us to repay the debts and give room for us to work on our economic growth. That remains a mirage. It has become a failed promise for the last three years. It has been about borrowing and more borrowing. Sen. Kajwang captured it so well that there is nothing wrong with borrowing for capital intensive projects."
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