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    "id": 1173521,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1173521/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ruaraka, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. T.J. Kajwang’",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Tom Joseph Kajwang'",
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    "content": " Thank you Hon. Speaker. I intended to speak on the variation of the public debt but now that you have asked me to put my voice, this will be my signing-off my term and waiting if, God willing, that I may join this House again. I was just listening as Hon. Kiarie was speaking with a lot of emotions. I guessed his bottom was itching because he propagates the principle of Bottom-Up. Hon. Speaker, I support this Bill because it is the means by which this Government will function. It is the Appropriations Bill which is the instrument to enable access public funds. It has come too late. A lot of things have come too late this year. For example, the Ministry took too long to file the statements with us, and the whole circle took too long to begin. So, in normal circumstances, we would have dispensed of with this Bill. But, now that it is coming at this point, I support it. I am yet to look at the votes. So, when it comes to the Committee of the whole House, I will want to see some of the things that the Ruaraka people have been promised. I want to see if they have been allotted in their exact positions the way they are. Otherwise, Hon. Atandi said something which I thought was said in jest, but it is a very important thing. That Kenya is not equal. There are other people who are feeling the public debt. They taste public debt more than others. So, according to Hon. Atandi, he also wants his people to taste this thing called public debt and savour it if it is bitter or not. I think I also want to savour this Appropriations Bill. Every time they elect a Member to come here and speak on the Floor of this House. But they have never tasted something coming from the Appropriations Bill. So, the time will come when we will go to the Committee of the whole House and I will look at it to see what Ruaraka has for it. Otherwise, I support it."
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