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    "id": 1236924,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musalia Mudavadi",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Cabinet Secretary",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Wycliffe Musalia Mudavadi",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I will respond not necessarily in any specific order. First of all, I want to mention that some of the immediate steps the Government has taken to try and deal with the crisis is waiver of duty on some of the food products that are coming in during this period that we are going through. The records we have are that in this process of waiver, the Government has waived close to Ksh10 billion worth of food that is coming in. What is critical is that we have a record – although I may not have it at this point in time – of the people who have imported and my message to them is that we look forward to them immediately passing the benefit of that duty waiver to the consumers. If they do not, then some other steps will have to be taken. I want to make it very clear to all those who have been part of the programme where duty waiver has been granted to make sure they do not delay in passing that benefit to the ordinary mwananchi . On the issue of debt crisis, I think there is a Bill that is either before the House or it is about to come where we want to adjust the law so that we move away from a debt ceiling and start talking about debt anchor. I would want to hold my horses here in the sense that during debate on this particular aspect, the Cabinet Secretary, Treasury, will speak more on the programmes and the approach we want to have on this debt menace that we are facing. Some of the things we have outlined – and they are not new because some of us have spoken about them before – are that we will have to continue working on the fiscal consolidation looking at enhanced revenue collection measures so that we are less dependent on external funding."
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