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    "id": 1352726,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisii County, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Dorice Donya",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. This is such a good moment when we are talking about what is on the ground and how the economy is doing. Looking back at Mwai Kibaki’s time, he left office and Kenyans were very excited that the economy had improved. When a county has more debts, so many things happen in that particular country. Even the bank interest rates increase. Business people cannot do without borrowing. So, a country’s debt status affects that country’s businesses. You can see at this particular time that too many people have closed their bank accounts or they have been rendered inactive. Most business people cannot afford to restock because what they sell goes directly into their stomachs, and not into their bank accounts. There is a Swahili saying which goes “kukopa harusi kulipa matanga.” It has always been a cry. We have this and that debt. When there is borrowing there are good photos that are taken. The media reports how today Kenya has received this and that loan. Sometimes you are not even told what this money has done. However, come to the time of payment, that is when it becomes “kulipa ni matanga” . There is a lot of cry. Oh, we need to do this with our budget so that we can pay. If you go to the ground, you will want to understand what the money that was borrowed did to improve the welfare of the citizens. Things are changing, and the economic times are very hard. There are very many things we can do as leaders to improve our economy instead of taking more loans. A half of Kenya is not developed. A half of it is left idle. Our land is not cultivated. The rains are here. We have no good storage facilities. The rains will soon be gone and drought will set in again. People will be crying of hunger while we have this precious commodity called water carrying away our people and destroying properties instead of it being stored so that it can be used in future."
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