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    "id": 444107,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Musyimi",
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        "legal_name": "Mutava Musyimi",
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    "content": "Hon. Chairlady, as I said in my reply, we have a very ambitious Budget here and one of the concerns that we have raised in the Budget and Appropriations Committee, and this House has continued to raise it, is the fiscal deficit. It is very important that we try to balance our Budget. We still have a hole of about Kshs12 billion that somehow we shall have to close. Indeed, we had a meeting this morning with the Cabinet Secretary, Mr. Rotich, where we were discussing these amendments that I have brought before this Committee of the whole House, on behalf of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. We said we will need a supplementary budget within two months so that we can be told among other things how the national Government is going to close that gap and that deficit of Kshs2 billion. So, the issue of a deficit is a matter we cannot take lightly."
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