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    "id": 1169612,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura",
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        "legal_name": "Isaac Maigua Mwaura",
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    "content": "called; it was a three-year resource envelope planning cycle. That way, you are able to do reduce the problem of pending bills. You are able to ensure that you can properly procure in good time and do not have to worry so much about the end of the financial year, where many of the resources are misused. Those government-expending agencies ask for more from the budget rather than actually live within their own means. The consultative process that used to happen in the budget making process has since become academic. People must feel that when they speak to their Government that there is some form in which that their needs are responded to. Madam Temporary Speaker, whatever projects end up implemented are not just an elite capture thing. Where those then who are able to push for that which will give them kick-back and make them millionaires and billionaires overnight is what ends up being in the strategic and work plans of various ministries, departments and agencies. What happens to the County Integrated Development Plan (CIDP) of various county governments? We do not hear those conversations anymore. Kenyans know what their priorities are. I strongly believe that Parliament has a very great moment in time to refuse to increase this debt ceiling, so that whatever happened in the last Financial Year can happen in the next Financial Year, and then people will start adjusting here and there. That we do not need this or that. Madam Temporary Speaker, I hope and believe that the Executive Order No.1 of 2022 shall reorganise Government in such a manner that it will reduce the recurrent expenditure that is currently gobbling up all of the Kshs3 trillion that we are borrowing. We have refused to put in place the loans and grants council. That statutory body would have ensured we know exactly where we are in terms of public debt. Can you imagine that the public debt register has not been made public? Every time you ask about it, nobody wants to answer that question because it is an elephant in the room. What did we borrow for? Where did that money go to? Who are our lenders? Are these syndicated loans and monies that are syphoned out of Government, then put into offshore accounts, and then borrowed back in the same Government? My heart tells me that is the case. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is immoral for money to be syphoned out of Government, then it finds its way back into commercial banks and the same banks borrow into the same Government. That is highly incestuous. It is actually enslaving the same people who are toiling out there to just put up some few people in plum government positions, ostensibly to protect their right that they end up looking at their kith and kin and own self-survival and perpetuation. That morass is killing our own enterprising entrepreneurs’ spirit, yet Kenya is a robust country that is able to feed its own. Kenya is a country that has enough for everybody. If we do not look at this issue of public debt ceiling, it is going to affect our country. I am on record that in 2014, I warned that in 10 years, there would be no country to run. I was told that I was watching with eloquence that nothing will change, but we must speak the truth. We must speak the truth because can you imagine that on 12th November,1980, Hon. Koigi Wamwere in the National Assembly warned about the Solai Dam that killed so many people."
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