HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept
{
"id": 218060,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/218060/?format=api",
"text_counter": 110,
"type": "speech",
"speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
"speaker_title": "The Minister for Finance",
"speaker": {
"id": 174,
"legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
"slug": "amos-kimunya"
},
"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, young Trevor Kibet is calling upon us to take action and join hands to build our country. The time is now for each one of us to take action towards making our country prosperous. The Budget I have presented today for 2007/2008 is, therefore, intended to consolidate and accelerate our recent achievements, and to broaden opportunities for all Kenyans to participate in building a brighter future that Trevor and other Kenyans yearn for. That young Kenyan is challenging us to have a positive outlook to life, love ourselves and our motherland and, most importantly, focus on economic development agenda. He is calling us to join hands to build our country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the success we have achieved on the economic front over the past four and half years can be directly attributed to our working together, in close partnership and collaboration with Kenyans of all walks of life. On the part of the Government, that partnership has meant listening very closely to the peoples' wishes, and then delivering on agreed policies and programmes. The result is that Kenyans and June 14, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1845 Kenya has now been ushered onto a new economic platform which facilitates the process of transforming it from poverty into a middle income country in the next 15 to 20 years or so, as envisaged within our Vision 2030, but within a framework of good governance and the rule of law, respect for human and property rights, private sector development and prudent economic management. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Budget I have presented this afternoon is intended to consolidate and accelerate all those recent achievements, and to broaden the opportunities for all Kenyans to participate in building a more prosperous nation and to bring a better quality of life for all Kenyans. In pursuit of that noble goal, we, as a people, must unite and rally around a single vision, that is Vision 2030 which will engender higher productivity and growth with a sense of social responsibility and equity. Mr. Speaker, Sir, let us all re-dedicate ourselves and work hard towards achieving this vision. I wish, therefore, to urge my fellow Kenyans not to allow themselves to be distracted from that successful partnership that has worked so well. With determination from all of us, and with God's help, we shall succeed beyond our wildest dreams, working together on the path to prosperity! Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move."
}