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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Oketch Gicheru",
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    "content": "dust, they must pay tax. They must pay an equal amount of money as other regions that have benefited from this debt. We must take control. We must not leave this debt management conversation to the National Treasury. We must take full control. I am very proud of our Members of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget because they have been very engaged. You have seen them staying in this House as much as they can to contribute to this House. I have seen Sen. Ali Roba, the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget staying in this House till late hours, to give you a snippet of what is happening in this country. I have seen the Vice-Chairperson, Sen. Tabitha Mutinda, staying in this House till late hours, so that she can give you just an idea of what we are struggling with in the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget to make sense to the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning. I have seen Sen. (Dr.) Boni Khalwale staying in this House to give you just an idea of why we must manage this debt, so that my fellow county men, people from Masangora, Isebania, Komusoko Nyamosenza and Macalder, who do not understand this burden, why it must come to them can get reprieved. I hope that even as we pass this MDTS, the recommendations that have been forwarded by this amazing Standing Committee on Finance and Budget will not go in vain. We will not be confronted with the next MDTS that is brought to us based on our recommendations that were never adhered to. We cannot recommend that you go down on domestic borrowing; we cannot recommend that the Government goes down on fisical deficit that they have to bring down, and then the next year, we are confronted with an increased fiscal deficit and increased domestic borrowing without Parliament knowing that increased under our watch. That must stop as I support the Committee on Finance and Budget for coming up with this Report. I thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this particular Motion."
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