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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Let us not be very trivial! Nobody can confirm he owns Raila Odinga. He is a national leader. Kalonzo Musyoka is not a village leader. The moment I say “Raila”, you do not freak. At one time he taught me politics. At one time he was my party leader. So, please you can mention Uhuru or Ruto as many times as you want in your deliberations. Please relax! Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the wage bill - and I want my colleagues to listen to me - from a layman’s economic point of view, if the wage bill growth rate is higher and growing faster than the GDP of a country; the population of a country, then there is a serious economic crisis. These are facts! It is not politics. In two years’ time our wage bill percentage will grow to 12.6 per cent. The Asian Tigers have 7.5 per cent. Parliament’s Recurrent Expenditure, the salaries of 349 Members plus the Senate are about 3 per cent compared to the other sectors. The Ministry of Internal Security is about 13 per cent. So, the issue is not about that. In fact, if a Member of Parliament says today that he wants to reduce his salary by 10 per cent, it will be Kshs30,000. This is because your basic salary is about Kshs300,000. So, 10 per cent of that is Kshs30,000. These are peanuts but what are we saying? What is the President saying? The road we are leading is not a safe road as a country. Our debt management system--- We do not want to leave our The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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