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    "id": 1200690,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1200690/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
        "slug": "john-mbadi"
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    "content": "The President talked a lot about the economy in his short Speech, and even proposed that he will start by cutting our budget by about Ksh300 billion. I thought that was a bit ambitious, but I am waiting to see, through the Supplementary Budget, what the National Treasury has for us to actualise the pronouncements by the President. However, I do not think the solution is on the quantum of the Budget as such, or the cutting down of it. I think we should focus, as a country, on misuse of resources, governance issues and fiscal discipline; what you could call corruption. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I do not understand why the President finds it hard to call out corruption by its name. I rarely hear my President talk about corruption. He will always cut corners and use language that is close to corruption, but he will not call it corruption. I would want President William Ruto to call corruption by its name. The one thing that he should disobey in his policy of bottom-up is corruption. This one must be toned down. It must be fought top-down; you cannot fight it bottom-up. The President, who is the head of this country must come out forthrightly and forcefully to call corruption by its name and make life unbearable for those who are corrupt. These are the people who are making our budget to be inflated and the country to lack resources to implement the projects needed."
}