Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 1451097,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1451097/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 4481,
    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Funyula, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) Ojiambo Oundo",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support the Supplementary Bill, 2024. It is, indeed, an interesting situation we find ourselves in. It is unprecedented because we are preparing a Supplementary Bill even before we implement the Bill that we passed just a few days ago. This goes to tell us the vanity in which we find ourselves in. That we fail to listen to the people of Kenya who elected us to come here and go to serve other masters. There are people who sent us to this place. We would not be here if we had been serious. The cuts being indicated here are substantial. These indicates all along, as we have always suspected, there is wanton waste in the Executive. We can actually run this country without this wastage. We hope this Supplementary Budget and the scare that has been meted towards Kenya Kwanza Government by the Gen Z protests and all the Kenyans of goodwill, will send them back to the drawing board and sincerely rationalise the budget. All along, the narrative that we were being told is that the impugned Finance Bill was supposed to raise Ksh364 billion and therefore the deficit, the cuts that were supposed to have undertaken on this budget should have been equal to Ksh364 billion. When you look at the summary included in the second schedule attached to this Supplementary Bill, it is Ksh146 billion that is being cut. The Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and Planning have not told us how they intend to raise the additional Ksh200 billion. Where is the money coming from? Are we going to delve deeper into borrowing yet he has clearly explained that a debt payment and interest payment is taking a whole 65 shillings for every ksh100 that we collect?"
}