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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Laikipia County, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jane Kagiri",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this debate. It is good to start by stating that as a country, we need to start telling ourselves the truth. The levels at which our public debt is at requires each one of us to make effort to ensure that we lower our public debt. Currently, I would wish that we all support the Government, which I served in, because we can see they are trying to manage the public debt that we have. By this, I believe that the President has been monitoring how our public debt is behaving. We are trying to avoid any situation where we would find ourselves incurring more costs. I add a rejoinder and state that as this Parliament, we need to pass a motion or a requirement that six months to the election, the outgoing President or the Government that is before the election, to state in this House the status of our public debt. A lot that has been said on the excessive borrowing that was done in the previous regime. However, we would all have been better positioned if we had known what the exiting Government had left as our public debt. Secondly, we see the same happening in county governments where we have incoming governors finding pending bills which nobody told them about. This takes back a county many steps backwards because they cannot progress and plan. Thirdly, a time has come where we need to question ourselves as a country. We cannot keep complaining on the exchange rate, yet we are doing nothing about it. It is time we all go back to the drawing table and ask ourselves how we are going to improve on our exports. We have the diaspora community outside the country who are bringing in a lot of foreign exchange. Last year, they brought in around Ksh483 billion. We need to ask ourselves how we can make 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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