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    "id": 201916,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/201916/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have said before, and I will repeat it here, that we need a paradigm shift in our budgeting. We need to allocate more and more money for Development Expenditure rather than Recurrent Expenditure. This is a developing economy and, therefore, more money is required for development rather than consumption. We live too much in the past, yesterday and today, without doing much for tomorrow. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when I was launching my vision, I talked about infrastructure. I am happy that the Minister took the cue and tried to allocate more money for roads construction. However, the philosophy here is \"repair and panel beating\". This country needs reconstruction, not just repair! That is why they are very happy managing repair work that is going on right now. We want to move from repair to real new things. I just want to give a few pieces of advice to the Government; in the unlikely event that they have an opportunity to do a Budget again, it should be done differently! Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am sure that next year's Budget that will be done by the ODM Government, will be very different from this one!"
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