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    "id": 418805,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/418805/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ababu",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 108,
        "legal_name": "Ababu Tawfiq Pius Namwamba",
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    "content": "the symbolic gesture of promising – and I do not know whether they have already done it - to take a pay cut. Therefore, I would have expected a lot of emphasis placed on this whole issue of public wage bill in the Budget Policy Statement. But going through the Budget Policy Statement, you get a feeling that this whole issue of public wage Bill has only been given a casual attention. But what bothers me is the consistency of figures in terms of this whole matter. The figures we have on the table right now seems to be talking of Kshs285 billion as the total wage bill from the previous financial year, which amounts to about 6.8 per cent of GDP. But the figure that is being branded out there and the one that the President is reported to have used in public is almost Kshs500 billion. That figure amounts to 13 per cent of GDP. In fact, if you were to use that particular figure, then you would get the alarming scenario where the public wage bill is almost 55 per cent of our total tax revenue; 43 per cent of Government expenditure and 13 per cent of GDP."
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