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    "id": 1370176,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1370176/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "The Kenya Kwanza Government said it shall not engage in subsidising fuel because the cost of subsidising fuel was unbearable for this country's economy. Members will see from the Statement delivered by the Chairman that close to Ksh100 billion was spent in a period of about three months. It tells you that on average, we were incurring a bill of Kshs1 billion daily to subsidise fuel. We have just tabled the National Dialogue Committee Report. Part of our points of divergence between us and our colleagues in Azimio was on the question of subsidising fuel. We made it clear that subsidising fuel is not tenable in an economy like ours. The cost is unbearable. Some of the problems we are talking about today regarding our economy emanated from those careless subsidies that we got into in the last two or three months before the general elections. They intended to hoodwink Kenyans that we had made fuel cheaper when the basics of what we should do to make fuel cheaper remained the same. However, it comes with a cost to the taxpayer. That is the cost taxpayers are paying today. That is the tax Kenyans are paying today. That is the burden we bear today. Six months after the beginning of the financial year, we do not have a shilling disbursed to the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). It is not enough for Members of Parliament to say that there is no Parliament without the NG-CDF. We have a duty and responsibility to ensure that the macroeconomic policies that are pursued by the Government are right, sustainable and can last a lifetime, and not just during an election period."
}