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    "id": 778186,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/778186/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "2015 Sections 26, 27, 28, 29 and 34, we need to interrogate it whether it met the legal requirements and also the requirements as provided in our Standing Orders. I will tell you for a fact that the BPS 2018 has a low level of compliance with the legal requirements as I have just enumerated. I do not want to go into the details because I know the Chairman talked about some of those mishaps or mismatches between it and the legal requirements. I listened to Hon. Cecily Mbarire talk about how good we are doing and that we are doing better than Tanzania, Ghana and other countries. But I just want to remind Hon. Cecily Mbarire that the information out there is that even though the East African Community (EAC) is the best growing economy in Africa, it has seen a slowed growth from 2016 to date. This is due to prolonged drought, political tension and decline in credit growth. Even though East Africa is doing comparatively well in Africa, this growth is attributable mostly to two countries. It is attributable to Rwanda and Tanzania. As a matter of fact, Kenya is slowing the growth in this region, Hon. Mbarire. Maybe that is the information you did not have. This is information from the National Treasury. I can see the Chairman has not even read the document from the National Treasury. It is interesting that my Chairman has not read. The Kenyan economic growth is slowing down the regional outlook. For example, for 2017/2018, Tanzania is registering 5.9 per cent growth and Rwanda is registering6.17 per cent. It is 5.3 per cent for this country. So, Kenya is slowing down the growth in the region. Let nobody cheat you. We are just projecting 5.9 per cent growth, with attendant risks. I have heard people say, and I agree with them entirely, and Hon. Makali Mulu has spoken to it, that we need to be realistic when we are projecting economic growth. The current projection of high economic growth is based on the unreliable agricultural sector. Improved performance in the agricultural sector is the driving factor the National Treasury is considering to stir economic growth for us to realise the growth projections that we are relying on. However, we all know that that assumption of improved weather conditions remains but assumptions. Further still, we have inherent structural weaknesses in the agricultural sector which have not been addressed. For example, the quality of seeds, the issue of irrigation, the issue of land fragmentation, the issue of transfer of technology, efficient processing and marketing of agricultural products, and the elephant in the room is corruption."
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