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    "id": 1266718,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1266718/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "South Mugirango, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Silvanus Osoro",
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    "content": "If you look at the proposals by the Auditor-General and the observations by the Controller of Budget, you will notice that out of Ksh100 that we collect as revenue, 47.9 per cent is used to service debt. We are left with about 52 per cent to cater for everything, including healthcare, education, roads and every service that is required in this country. That is not a very good report. It is not something interesting to have as a country. Apparently, year in, year out, we find ourselves in this situation. We will always find ourselves paying. We will be servicing loans year in, year out because we are not living within our means. That is really a challenge. Many of these challenges are brought forth by our own making. There is a lot of wastage within the Government structures and operations. At times they are very unnecessary. If every office, sector and State department can check on how they spend their money, we will save a lot of money. We will not find ourselves servicing debts that are unnecessary. Those are things I have noticed in this Report. As a country, we are not doing well. We need to empower the independent offices even as they make professional proposals that will help us to mitigate the challenge of public debt. If we are able to keenly follow what the Auditor-General, and the Controller of Budget, say - those offices give expert advice - we will mitigate these challenges. Sometimes people in public office take advantage of existing loopholes in the law and misuse public funds. At times we find ourselves in situations we cannot explain. People have misused the law."
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