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    "id": 420300,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/420300/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am sure the HANSARD will bear me out. I also want to note that the Committee considered very daunting challenges that our country is facing; the matter of wage bill and security in this report and more so, the over-challenging daunting task of implementing a devolved system of government. These are three key challenges that face this Government; The wage bill, security sector and the devolved system. I looked both at this report and by virtue of my position I looked at how the National Treasury viewed this report. So, my contribution will be more or less where the Committee did well and where we should do more in our next Budget Policy Statement (BPS). The Committee did and provided very good comments on the overall expenditure and the impact it would have on our economy. The Committee, if I pick on one, looked at our country’s public sector wage bill as an issue which we cannot sustain as opposed to increasing capital investment. I want to make it very clear. What His Excellency the President did was that he set a debate; a dialogue; an agenda; something of national importance. If today the CORD leadership, hon. Raila Odinga, was given an opportunity he would have addressed the same issue of wage bill. If hon. Musyoka did not team up and went through the katikati way and became the president, he would have addressed the same issue. If hon. A.B. Duale was the president, he would address the same issue."
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