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    "id": 1441202,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1441202/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bureti, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kibet Komingoi",
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    "content": "We must come to an agreement, as a House, that we cannot propose one thing and do another. We made proposals, as a House, and passed the Appropriation Bill allowing the Budget and Appropriations Committee to appropriate the funds that we had thought are of essence and also of great concern to the people. In agreeing to the Appropriation Bill, the monies that we had voted for the constituencies to cater for the various projects that are within our constituencies and the nation's development, we, therefore, agreed that we will raise these revenues either through ordinary tax or the proposals that are going to fund those projects. I find it hypocritical for Members to rise up here and say that they will reject the Finance Bill in totality and refuse to acknowledge, therefore that it must be accompanied by reductions or elimination of some of the projects and the expenditures that we had proposed. Hon. Speaker, the Appropriation Bill had proposed close to Ksh1 trillion on repayment of interest on debt. These are loans that were taken by the previous governments combined and we must pay these debts. To move forward as a nation, we must approve and acknowledge that we should raise our own revenues by whatever means possible, but making sure that the most vulnerable of us are protected. I support this Bill and the proposals because it makes provision for the employment of 46,000 JSS interns as permanent and pensionable staff. The Teachers Service Commission (TSC) should re-consider the letters they sent to JSS interns who went on strike demanding to be employed and benefit from these monies that we are raising for their employment. I support the Bill with the amendments in the Report of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning."
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