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    "id": 430115,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/430115/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ngong’o",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "That is spelt out in the BPS as one of the key pillars or objectives to be achieved. Then one would have expected that when you look at the BPS, you get deliberate and systematic efforts towards ensuring that, that pillar is realized. But even though this is very attractive, in my view it comes out clearly that this is just mere academic exercise with no serious effort to actualize it, as I will demonstrate shortly. You will allow me to say at that point because I wanted to make this point that there has been talk about the heavy public wage bill but for the figures that the Government has been talking about, you do not see them in the BPS. That is a major source of worry and concern. If the reports coming from the Treasury are not reliable, then what would be reliable? I was looking at the projects recurrent expenditure of Kshs909 billion. Out of it, interest payment is Kshs118 billion; wages and benefits is only Kshs325 billion contrary to what the public has been made to believe that this country spends about over Kshs500 billion. Other expenditure constitutes Kshs324 billion; that is other recurrent expenditure. If you look at the pension payable, it is Kshs45 billion. Therefore, I would like to ask the Treasury, if they are listening to me, to come out and tell the people of this country the breakdown of this figure that they have been talking about, which they have even misled the President and the Deputy President to believe that this country spends over Kshs500 billion. It is not backed by figures that they have given us. These are not from anywhere else, they are from the Treasury."
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