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    "id": 428627,
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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": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, first of all, if anybody was to come into this country in the last months, he would have imagined that the greatest tragedy which has happened in the country today is the burden of the public wage bill. It was so much that it took the unprecedented action from His Excellency the President and his Deputy to do 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 seem 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 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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