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    "id": 730336,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I said “we share” but I never said you drink. Can I carry on? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the President talked about public debt. If you watched that Speech, the President said that our public debt is not unmanageable, that we are still within reason. The President never cared to tell us where he found the public debt and where he has taken it to. Former President Kibaki left this country with a public debt of Kshs875 billion. In three-and-a-half years, the Jubilee regime has pushed the public debt to Kshs3.8 trillion. If that is not alarming, I do not know what you would call it. Yet the President stands to say that the debt is not unmanageable. The country is not moving. The economy is stagnated. The growth figures are only a figment of the imagination of certain people in Jubilee Government. You say that the economy is growing, but look at the rate of unemployment on the streets, the soaring crime, and collapse of agriculture that gives the highest level of employment in the country. Mumias Sugar Company has collapsed and Nzoia Sugar Company is collapsing. The tea, coffee and rice industries are struggling. There is nowhere that you can talk of bounty, then you come to tell us that the economy is growing. It is digging holes to fill holes. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, look at the cost of the standard gauge railway. I feel very sorry for this country. Ethiopia, our neighboring country, with a more difficult terrain than any part of Kenya, a standard gauge railway line from Djibouti to Addis cost them slightly under $3 million per kilometre. Our standard gauge railway costs $8.5 million per kilometers from Mombasa to Nairobi. ‘Hata kama mnataka kutetea jameni,b e patriotic. I know that you want to say that I should speak in English continuously, but that is a quote and it is allowed under the Standing Orders."
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