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    "id": 742504,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/742504/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Wandayi",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have a lot of difficulty supporting this Second Supplementary Budget and for obvious reasons. If it were something worthwhile, I would support it, but not this one. Why am I saying so? It is important that when you come to ask for more money in any ordinary circumstance, you first explain how you have used the money you were given before - That is the only time you can justify being granted additional money. Here is case where we are being told to give more money and yet there is nothing to show for the money we appropriated. Really? I think that is ridiculous. Secondly, it is unfortunate that the Second Supplementary Budget will be passed courtesy of the tyranny of numbers. The other unfortunate thing is that even as we haggle here, this money we are seeking to pass has either been spent or has been committed. So, it is a rubber- stamping exercise I will not be party to. I say this because if you look at the areas which this Government has continued to talk about as having intervened, you do not see any positive results. Take for instance, the Mumias Sugar Company saga. This is why I am very cautious about supporting an endeavour like this at this critical time of the year or calendar when people are headed to elections. This is a time when money can easily be channeled for use that was not intended originally. It can be confirmed that what is going round the social media is true. For instance, money we appropriate to go to the Sugar Development Levy is simply being sent to people to use in campaigns. There is a letter doing round in the social media alleging that---"
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