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    "id": 1353403,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1353403/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Siaya County, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Christine Ombaka",
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    "content": "it cannot afford to repay loans and we are beginning to see how it is affecting us. We cannot eat because everybody in this country is hungry. The Government cannot pay salaries for doctors, teachers, police men and women and other civil servants on time. That is a pointer to the fact that we are performing very badly economically. I keep on lamenting that the sad thing is that – as it has already been said by other people - Kenya was a shining country in the past. Many countries admired Kenya. It was a tourism destination and a place to admire because it has great athletes, beautiful animals and wonderful sites to visit and see. We have really fallen down and deteriorated so fast and miserably to the extend that Kenyans are wondering where we are going as a country. There are no jobs for our young people who are educated. Where are we headed as a country? We have collapsed the system that would have generated funds for us. We have collapsed the sugar industry and we do not have sugar. We are importing it. We do not have tea yet our tea is supposed to be the greatest in the world; we are no longer great in that area. We have collapsed the cotton that we used to grow in Nyanza. Our fish industry is collapsing. Everything is collapsing. Where is the future for this country? Are we not going to be marooned with debts upon debts? I keep on wondering why foreign countries that give us money keep on giving a poor country like Kenya more money. How are we going to pay back those loans? Why can they not ask themselves how is Kenya going to manage the loans that it continues to borrow. Time has come for them to refuse giving loan. Kenya should be punished for stealing and corruption. We are creating poverty ourselves. We know very well that if we continue to steal and corrupt very big institutions that bring us money and industries like cotton and sugar, then we should expect the worst for ourselves. I blame the administration of this country. It does not see ahead. It is ready to sink the country and keep on mourning, saying how the world is broke and inflation has gone up. Inflation will go up because we do not want to take care of ourselves economically. We are not planning."
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