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    "id": 1352665,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1352665/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Busia County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Catherine Omanyo",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I have looked at the Budget and I realise that borrowing is haphazardly done. It is too much. The rate at which Kenya is borrowing compared to the rate at which development is happening, shows there is something amiss. I do not understand why there is no money to go to counties to help in disaster management because right now governors are in a quagmire. They are stranded because there is no money to handle problems caused by El Nino rains yet I am seeing the country has been borrowing over and over. Even right now I am sure where the President is, he has gone to borrow again. We need to cut our cloth according to our size as a nation and not exorbitantly keep borrowing and putting our future generations in trouble. All we are doing today is what our future generations will feel. In fact, it is not future generations, we are already feeling it right now. It is better to borrow and make sure that we use that money to create new money and avenues for everybody in our country. We must come up with ways of making life bearable. At the moment, if you see how much the Government has been borrowing compared to what Kenyans are receiving, it is imbalanced. We need to hit a pivot at the right place to balance what we are asking compared to what we are doing. If we do not have industries and things that will create jobs and new money in our country, then we are headed to a brink."
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