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    "id": 51121,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/51121/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Sambu",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Alfred B. Wekesa Sambu",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as such, the Committee recommends that the Treasury grants Parliament an additional Kshs400 million to commence the project in the coming financial year. Having gone through the main concerns and observations of the Committee, I now turn to specific recommendations of the Committee. (a) Kenya, currently, faces a myriad of challenges; the compelling ones being the drought ravaging parts of the country, rising food and oil prices, unemployment, poverty and a growing domestic and national debt burden. The four mentioned issues are, indeed, extraordinary in nature and, therefore, call for extraordinary targeted policy interventions to tackle current and envisioned challenges. This is an opportunity for the Government to pronounce tough fiscal measures with limited political implications and resist the temptation to present populist measures. Further, the Government should desist from granting transfers and subsidies to lower income groups likely to be unsustainable and to distort the market. To this end, the Committee recommends and urges the House to resolve that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance makes adequate provisions in the 2011/2012 Budget for bridging the required strategic food reserves which should factor food diversity in the country. In addition, the Committee proposes that, in the coming budget, a Livestock Development Fund be set up with an initial"
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