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    "id": 1382323,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1382323/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Beatrice Elachi",
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    "content": "Additionally, when you read the Report, the Auditor-General in advising the Government and states that the Government continues to pay commitment fees incurred on undrawn amounts regarding loans signed between the Government of Kenya and foreign lenders. If that is what is happening, how do we re-negotiate those loans since we have not spent them? I believe we can re-negotiate. We can take cheap loans to repay the existing ones. This will reduce the strain that is currently affecting the country. The National Treasury has to question the need for some loans and ensure they are spent on the intended purpose. With time, some of them have been overtaken by events. We, therefore, should ask ourselves whether we need the loans. When we get our budgets, we wait to see how the National Treasury will advise us, that, yes, we have our budgets and this is the total amount we want to spend, but we have a framework of how we can re-evaluate and work within the budget regardless of over- estimation. Let us spend what we have. As I support this, I am waiting to see..."
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