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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I equally want to refer to the issue that was raised with regard to pending bills. I want to assure this House that as Treasury, we have moved to improve our debt management and we have gone a long way towards that end. There is no intention of hiding from this House any information that may be relevant, especially with regard to the debts that we hold. There was reference to debt servicing that was previously in the Budget but were removed. They were removed because we are in the process of re-negotiating some of them because they are commitments that we have made. But we as Treasury, have made it very clear that we shall not pay a single shilling of tax-payers’ money that is not worth the value of whatever it is that we are purchasing. Until such time that we have fair value, we shall come before this House and tell you which commitments we have that we entered into and we would wish to pay. We will not hide anything. We are planning to deal with all those issues in a very transparent manner and the reason they are removed is because there is yet no agreement and we have no intention to pay until there is agreement."
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