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    "id": 1353385,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Rangwe, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Lilian Gogo",
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    "content": " Thank you so much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Thank you for the very wonderful presentation that you made today at a forum I attended on matters concerning women leadership and governance. I really appreciate you. I rise to add my voice to the debate on the Report on the expenditure of the Consolidated Fund Services under the Supplementary Estimates for the 2023/2024 Financial Year. It is not a crime to borrow money or to be lent money. As a nation, Kenya has to run its services to the noble people of Kenya. Kenya can get money to run its systems of governance. As we stand, we have had issues with the freefall of the shilling. Proposals to tame the same should warrant our positive contribution to the extent that, as it were, we hang around and see how to fix this country. About Ksh200 billion goes to servicing the difference in the exchange rate. It is important that we increase foreign income to the country. As has already been well elucidated by those who have spoken ahead of me, a raft of issues needs to be done. I would also just want to overemphasise what they have talked about. We should encourage remittances from the diaspora. Kenyans who live abroad, work abroad or who are outside this country, try so much to get us money to invest back home. There should be no impediment to these initiatives. The Government should put in place systems to encourage this investment and this will draw foreign currencies into our country. Tourism activities is another area that we should look at. When I was going to the African Parliamentarians’ Network Against Corruption (APNAC) meeting in Arusha recently, two weeks ago, I happened to have boarded the same plane with a raft of tourists who had just transited through Kenya to Kilimanjaro. The tourism industry was very vibrant at one point in The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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