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    "id": 1355176,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " I was saying that Ksh145 billion is going to service debt. Those who are pontificating about how good they are in fighting for Kenyans on the cost of living are never honest enough to tell Kenyans that the huge burden of public debt that we are now having to pay an extra Ksh145 billion was occasioned by bad macro- economic policies under a regime they served in and supported. We must be honest. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I say this with all due respect to my colleagues, even those I am engaging with in the National Dialogue Committee. I have seen them pontificate on the cost of living and demanding that we must now implement policies that we, as the Kenya Kwanza Administration, did not go out to Kenyans to campaign on. We campaigned on the background of workable macro-economic policies that will ensure that this country is on a trajectory of economic recovery that is anchored on sustainable macro-economic policies, but not short-term, populist and politically expedient policies of subsidising consumption. In these Supplementary Estimates, the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Energy and the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee will tell you that we now have to pay Ksh4 billion for subsidising fuel. Those are bills which were not incurred by this administration but are fuel subsidy bills that were incurred by the previous administration. When we told them that the policies of subsidising consumption that they were pursuing were not helping this country, they did not listen to us. I am saying this because I sit at a place where I have seen people begin to use the question of the cost of living to play populist politics. 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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