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    "id": 158331,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mrs. Mugo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Public Health and Sanitation",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 85,
        "legal_name": "Beth Wambui Mugo",
        "slug": "beth-mugo"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for the opportunity to support this Motion. Let me on the onset, congratulate the Minister and his team for the Supplementary Estimates and the manner in which that Ministry has been managed for sometime now. We are proud to see that since 2003 when the NARC Government came to power, we have managed our Budget. The economic growth in our country has been well managed. There has been good discipline and that is how we have been able to pay for the Free Primary Education Programme. We have also been able to pay for health, subsidized secondary education and infrastructure, at a level which had not been seen in this country for a long time. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is a pity and it is a sad day for Kenyans when we see ourselves going back to where we might start depending on donor funding which we had said goodbye to. This is a problem of our own making. If we had been able to grow our economy, we should never have allowed ourselves; the political class, to slide backwards because of selfish reasons. I feel we should guard our nation so as never to go this route again, where we forget our economy and only think about power and things like that. That is why Kenyans are angry with the political class. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we want to encourage the Minister for Finance and his team to step up the collection of taxes. We know that they can only collect as much as the economy base allows. That is why we must show leadership in this House. We must be at the forefront not to confuse the world. We must show that we are a responsible Government. We must show that we are a Government that can respect the signature of its Head of State. All governments in the world, even a parastatal, a house and a home, have a head. We are sending a very dangerous signal to the world when we refuse to accept the signature of the Head of State. What happens tomorrow when the President puts his signature on an internationally discussed agreement? Is it going to be said that it cannot suffice because he has not consulted? It may be a stopgap measure right now but I feel that we have endangered ourselves, our future and trustworthiness as a Government than any other time in our history."
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