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    "id": 1441761,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1441761/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I am grateful to have finally caught your eye. This is where the Finance Bill belongs. I am glad we are here debating it because we have a lot of work to do to clear and disabuse the misinformation that is being peddled about this Finance Bill. The misinformation is leading our children to the streets. They have been made to believe that the Finance Bill is one clause and one question that will come to the House, and Hon. Members will vote yes or no. Every one of those children that I have engaged on my social media is asking whether I am voting yes or no. I asked them: ‘Which clause’? None of them could respond because they are responding to what is being peddled in the media. The Finance Bill belongs to the Floor of this House. We can now tell Kenyans the truth that the Finance Bill will allow us to fund every project that is listed in the Budget. But, most importantly, we will also talk to Kenyans about the process that we have undertaken. The Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning Committee has engaged Kenyans so robustly that their wishes have now been heard. There were antagonistic clauses that were offensive to some Kenyans. Those clauses have been addressed in the right place, and there are proposals to remove some of the offensive clauses. It is said that a lie has speed, but the truth has endurance. Kenyans were made to believe that when we were passing the Budget, it was the day we were prosecuting the Finance Bill. Some even went out to the streets that day because the lie was too fast. There are too many lies being peddled by the media. Today, we have the opportunity to put the record straight. If we had a theme for this Finance Bill, it should be that we seek to make Kenya stop being a net importer…"
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