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    "content": "I also want to talk about the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). As a country, we committed ourselves that we will observe the deadline of 2015 to realise the MDGs. However, this is the first year that I have seen some attempts to address the various MDGs, some of which include poverty reduction and free primary education, but very little has been going on in terms of healthcare and provision of water. We should comply with the MDGs in our future budgets. I also want to say that the Government of Kenya through the Consolidated Fund Services is paying money to the tune of Kshs1billion in repayment of loan and interest every year to the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) for money that was printed in 1997. In 1997, the CBK purportedly loaned the Government of Kenya Kshs38 billion and yet there was no loan. The whole thing was paper money. The CBK was asked to print paper money to fund Government activities because various donors had refused to give the Government money. Why should we continue to pay the CBK for a loan which was not there in the first place? If you look at the balance sheet of the CBK and its economic performance, you will find that it has been reflecting that it makes about Kshs1"
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