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    "id": 1461995,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1461995/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Rural, WDM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Mwalika",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also say a thing or two about this Report. At the outset, I support the Report. Let me thank the President for nominating Hon. Mbadi to be the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning. I know Hon. Mbadi as a very honest and hardworking man. He is going to bring changes in the National Treasury. This country is facing bad economic policies, bad tax measures and poor financial management. The first thing that Hon. Mbadi should do is to bring a reasonable budget. I believe the budget we have been getting is too high in such a way that we have to do a lot of taxing which negatively impacts the lives of the people. I believe the budgets we have been having can work with 30 per cent reduction and we still do well. I also believe that we need to subject the budget estimates to public participation the way we do with the Finance Bill. There is a lot of wastage. We need to introduce austerity measures and fiscal consultation so that we can reduce the budget and wastage. Things like tea, flowers, conferences and trainings should not be in a budget. I believe Hon. Mbadi is going to reintroduce the Passat cars which were there during the reign of the former President Uhuru, when he was the Minister for Finance."
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