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    "id": 1229749,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1229749/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambaa, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Njuguna Kawanjiku",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to such an important Motion on issues affecting the whole Republic. We now need to differentiate between facts and lies. I want to congratulate the Leader of the Minority Party for bringing up this discussion. We can now look at what has brought us here as a country and debate measures that we are going to take. It is also very important that we take stock and consider where we are coming from. One of the issues affecting our country today in such a big way is the issue of “handshake” brothers. The then opposition was not able to oversee the Government the way it was supposed to. They were not playing their role as they are now. We all agree that it is important for us to leave maandamano and the streets, and come to the Floor of the House to prosecute issues and oversee the Executive. Hon. Temporary Speaker, on debt, I thank His Excellency the President because he spoke very well today. He said that we cannot continue borrowing, digging holes, and taking our country backward. One of the measures that we are going to take is to stop borrowing for recurrent expenditure. That is what has been happening. He stated that the Executive is already warming up to the high cost of living. The deficit in the 2022/2023 Budget was about Ksh800 billion, but we also realised Ksh250 billion was not accounted for or declared in the Budget. Therefore, the President has done what he is supposed to do by ensuring that he is not going to borrow. We have reduced the amount of money that we were supposed to borrow in the 2022/2023 Financial Year to a tune of about Ksh300 billion. These people can only wait. They have also realised that the trajectory that the Kenya Kwanza Government is taking will take this country to the next level. It is aimed at moving the country away from the shambles of debt and ensure that we are self-sustaining. We can only ask the Minority Party to leave the streets and support the Government. They should go back to building this country by making sure that they respect the businesses of other Kenyans who are trying as much as they can to rebuild our country after serious and vigorous campaigns that we had in 2022. We cannot run away from the cost of living. Since the Kenya Kwanza Government took over, it reduced the price of unga that was at Ksh250 to about Ksh180. This is what we call progress. It has only been six months. It is true that the delay of salaries has never happened, but the President said that it is better for us to live within our means. If there are going to be issues to do with planting and ensuring that there are subsidies in the production of maize, then we will address them at that time. The President is setting an example and during this rainy season, we need to go back to our farms to plant maize and other crops to ensure we can feed ourselves and our neighbours. The work of the Opposition is to oversee the Government of the day and we really appreciate what the Minority Party is currently doing. We have put an end to the issue of subsidies. As the value of the dollar is rising, our imports have better exchange rates from the"
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