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    "id": 1545203,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1545203/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Methu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13581,
        "legal_name": "Methu John Muhia",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, now I am on the narrow path of not mentioning anybody. Tell me how a country which borrows money, because we do not have, can have a surplus to give students one million chapatis in a day? If you were to give it a price, for example, of Kshs20 per chapatti, that would make it Kshs20 million a day. In a week, if they were to go to school for five days, that would make it Kshs100 million a week. If they were to be there for a month, that would make it Kshs400 million. If you were to have them for a year, it would be Kshs1.2 billion. I do not know if that is correct. If we have money for such, why are we borrowing? What justification do we have to continue borrowing when we are plundering the same resources? The people of Kenya would want to feel and see what the money is doing. Borrowing is easy. However, the biggest burden is repayment which is placed on the people of Kenya. It is not President William Ruto or we in Government who repay the loans. The burden of repayment of our national debt is specifically on the shoulders of the people of Kenya. We should not spend money anyhow and expect the people of Kenya to continue clapping for us. The State is using millions of Shillings to mock its own citizens. A person in a village in Migori will see SUVs of the state going to launch one small project. I think we are mocking the people of Kenya. This is not what the people of Kenya expected from the leadership and regime that is ruling us now. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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