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    "id": 1217035,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nominated, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Parliament passed the Appropriation Bill. My argument was ignored in the House but the former Controller of Budget, Agnes Odhiambo, a great lady, refused to approve Government expenditure. In fact, Government programmes and services almost grounded to a halt. We had to be summoned to come back and pass the Appropriation Bill. That is the kind of Controller of Budget we need for this country, not people who give excuses. We do not deserve people who when they find themselves serving a new regime, they want to please the new regime by scandalising and blaming the previous regime when they have the law behind them, supporting them to do the right things. I want to conclude, because time is not on my side. There is this talk about subsidies. I have listened carefully to the Kenya Kwanza Alliance. They talk about subsidising production. Well and good. That is what Hon. Oundo was calling “supply-driven subsidy” but there is also demand-driven subsidy, which you are scandalising. In the process of defining “production subsidy”, you are so limited in your ability that you think fuel subsidy is a consumption subsidy. There is no major factor of production like energy, and one of the sources of energy is petroleum and another one is electricity. One of your great economic advisers called David Ndii told us that you never promised us cheap electricity. What did you promise us then? You know that you cannot con people even after an election. You can con people during campaigns but immediately you get power, please, be truthful. Henceforth, I want to plead with the Kenya Kwanza Alliance that the time for politics is over. It is now time for delivery. Do not talk about Hon. Uhuru Kenyatta and Hon. Raila Odinga because they are not in Government. You are now the ones in charge of Government, and they can hold you accountable whether in the streets of Nairobi, Bungoma, Bondo or Kikuyu. They will hold you to account because that is their duty. I will hold you to account on the Floor of this House. Hon. Temporary Speaker, let the Kenya Kwanza Alliance Government get to work and not the political rhetoric of people claiming to own shares in Government. All Kenyans own shares in the Republic of Kenya. We all pay taxes. By the way, the last election almost produced a split election. In this country, whether you like it or not, Azimio and Kenya Kwanza are 50 to 50. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support."
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