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    "id": 841513,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Interest alone on our public debt today is Kshs400 billion per annum. Our grandiose expenditure goes to the big projects and the debt continues to pile. When the debt continues to run away in the manner it is doing, the country will start running into serious difficulties. It is unfortunate that this House is not enjoined in the Constitution, to vote on such matters. I am sure this House would have advised the country differently and would have voted differently. Be that as it may, every time the debt balloons to the level it is doing, it undermines the remittances of money to counties and the development programmes in counties that we represent, the efficient delivery of services, the provision of health services and the provision of quality education. It literally undermines good order in the country. We have seen countries where law and order can get compromised because of mismanagement of the economy and the run-away public debts. As I move this Motion, I want to urge this House to opine to the Government that serious attention must be paid to the issue of debts. We sit in the Committee on Finance and Budget of this House and every day---"
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