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    "id": 1252938,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1252938/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kajiado Central, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Memusi Kanchory",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The proposal to collect Ksh2,500 each from three million Kenyans will realise Ksh7.5 billion a month. If this money was proposed to be spent in education, which is an area most people have a need in, I would gladly contribute Ksh2,500. If that money was allocated to the 290 constituencies represented by these Members of Parliament, each constituency would get over Ksh25 million a month. If that was the proposal, we would gladly support it. The people need certain basic things, food being one of them. The money that Kenyans contribute to the NHIF and the NSSF is a lot. Right now, NHIF is broke and it cannot pay for its expenses. As for NSSF, people retire but cannot be paid their pension. You are telling people already seeing misappropriation of money to continue contributing. This is wrong. I see a lot of insensitivity and cluelessness in this government. The unfortunate thing is that when the UDA party was campaigning, they appealed to the desperate people in this country, the so-called hustlers. But they have squandered the first opportunity they had, through this Budget, to show that they really meant what they said. The first thing I would have wanted to see is how loopholes for corruption would be sealed and how wastage would be stopped by this government. If we can no longer afford a Budget of over Ksh3 trillion, what is wrong with us saying this country can only finance a Ksh2.1 trillion Budget and not tax Kenyans to death? I oppose. Thank you."
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