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"speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
"speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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"content": "people who brought us to this House if we dwell on pettiness. There are major issues. Let us state them, find the remedy and start working towards it. At the height of our excessive borrowing, we were borrowing Ksh2 billion a day. That is how we found ourselves in a situation where we were borrowing to cover recurrent expenditure. That is how we found ourselves borrowing money that was not good loans, but very expensive ones to pay salaries. At our prime, there were heists and blatant thefts happening in the Government. I am talking about the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) heist. We know what happened when we tried to change the Constitution through a modality called the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). At a time when the country was struggling to make ends meet, we were ready to spend Ksh12 billion just to create positions in this country. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we cannot remedy the situation if we cannot look back and see where the rain started beating us. When the shoe changed from one foot to the other, others found it more convenient to go to the streets, visiting untold destructions upon this City. There are individuals who would visit the low-income areas of this City and cause chaos, deaths, anarchy, theft, and pilferage. Eventually in the evening, they end up high fiving each other in some air-conditioned clubs in the city after leaving the people they purport to be speaking for, and on behalf of, in the agony that they have put them in. It is important to note that this Government has been in power for only six months, and the changes are amazing. I understand the frustration and why one would be keen to distract the Government because they have realised what is happening. If the plans that are underway can be established and implemented, we will have a new country. Mine is to call us, as a House, to see the problem that is on the ground and start identifying solutions. In the spirit of bipartisanism, we might find some solutions that can emanate from this House and start alleviating the cost of living and giving solutions to the problems that we are talking about, but that will call for objectivity."
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