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    "id": 1357944,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1357944/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "The joy we must celebrate today as a nation is that even with the difficulty around the world, today, in our country, as the President stated, we can confidently stand up with our shoulders and necks high and tell the world markets that we are ready to start repaying the Eurobond. We shall not be defaulting on any of our international financial obligations. I must commend this administration and the President for the measures taken to ensure we do not go the route taken by other African countries. Hon Speaker, it all begins and ends with leadership. With the right leadership, you do the right things, at the right time. With the wrong leadership, you will be tempted to do all the populist things you speak about in funerals and rallies over the weekends knowing very well we cannot afford to subsidise food and fuel. All the things that we cannot afford as a country, we must be bold enough to look at each other and Kenyans in the eye. We must tell them that we were in a bad place but we are getting somewhere. I am very confident. I know those who never voted for this Government and who never believed in this administration. Those who do not support this administration would not agree with me or agree with the President when he says that this economy has now been stabilised. We are now out of the hole. We can now see the horizon. We can see where we are going as an economy. That may not be clear to those who believed in subsidising consumption. Those who believed that state capture and the fight against corruption was a war to wage against individuals and not something to do for posterity… I am glad the President spoke and addressed the nation on what his administration not only intends to do, but is doing on the fight against corruption. I know many of us again, those who never believed in this President and in this administration have taken issues with the"
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