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    "id": 1217605,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Ministries will now be able to access funds to spur the economic growth that we were speaking about yesterday. Significantly, as we passed the Committee’s Report yesterday, there were also reports of the Cabinet meeting of yesterday morning. I have seen a number of media houses misreport a resolution by the Cabinet. Because we are the budget-making House, we have responsibility to correct misreporting by the media. Some of these media houses have become notorious. This afternoon, the Whip of the Majority Party tabled reports of the Auditor-General and Financial Statements in respect of a number of constituencies for the financial year ended 2021. With your indulgence, Hon. Speaker, let me just say that we have a number of new Members of Parliament whose first audit reports will be tabled before this House hopefully by mid next year, after the audits that will be done after your taking office. Please, do not allow any person in the media to blackmail or intimidate you. Some of them are calling Members of Parliament saying that they have seen audit reports of their NG-CDF Committees. I can see Members already nodding because a number of them have been called. There are issues that you need to talk to us about. Members of Parliament are not accounting officers of the NG- CDF. They have no business. If there are issues to do with audit of the NG-CDF, those are issues to be dealt with by the accounting officers, who are the fund account managers in your respective constituencies. Therefore, do not allow some of these cheap media houses to blackmail you for small bribes so that they do not write. Tell them as I told the one who was approaching some Members. I told them, ‘go put it on your headlines, in your funny newspaper that you do not even sell. You distribute it for free’. Anyway, I was on the media houses because the same media houses have misreported the resolution by the Cabinet today, of coming up with a debt anchor. They have misreported that the Government of Kenya is now raising the debt ceiling. Far from it. I do not know whether the writer does not understand that the debt anchor simply relates to a debt to GDP ratio that defines the optimal desirable debt-carrying capacity of an economy. It is that simple. We are saying that our optimal desired debt-carrying capacity will now be anchored at 55 per cent of GDP in net present value terms. Maybe, it is too much economics for these writers or journalists. I encourage them to research. Hon. Speaker, allow me to mention The People newspaper because it is The People I am talking about. They are the same media house, Mediamax, that is famed Kamehemehe FM that was fighting our lady Members of Parliament the other day, telling them that they are wearing vitenges ."
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