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    "id": 349905,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Trade",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for the opportunity to support the Motion. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, world over, all governments operate by borrowing; borrowing internally, borrowing externally and luckily for this country, what the Minister is asking for is to expand the borrowing ceiling. But he cannot spend that money without the approval of this House. So, it is not an issue that we should worry about, that we are giving him a carte blanche for him to spend money that this House has not approved. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you may recall, as hon. Anyang’-Nyong’o said, in the 1990s, when Finance Ministers - I believe at one time my friend, hon. Okemo, was one - were regular unpleasant visitors to the Paris Club to go and explain all manner of things in very humiliating circumstances about the inability of this country to run its affairs, our indebtedness and so on. We have come out of that situation and we must thank our Government of the last ten years for putting this country on a path of growth. Of course, what happened after the"
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