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    "content": "Kibaki left this country with a public debt of less than a billion. Now it is over Kshs5 billion. When you add on what came from China the other day, it is now Kshs5.23 billion. Our appetite for borrowing is growing and growing. It is insatiable and you can borrow and borrow until---Can you imagine? Last week, Argentina was declared technically insolvent; Argentina, a country with an economy three times bigger than Kenya because the leadership embarked on a reckless highway of borrowing upon borrowing. Sometimes they borrow money and take to casinos. This is dangerous! I listened to the Chairman of the Committee straining to make sense of this Report and the more I strained, the more it looked unbelievable, because we are cheating ourselves. Today, we will walk home that we passed a Committee report on disbursement of funds and it will go into statistics that the Senate has worked. What work have we done? Nothing! I feel so pained when I talk about this, because whichever county you go to whether it is Bungoma, Nandi, Mombasa, Laikipia or Mandera, they are under severe financial stress. Sooner than later, the people of this country will start asking question after question. They will start getting angry. After that, they will start acting in a manner that is inconsistent with the behavior of a civilized country. It is time to talk to each other, time to change, time to make devolution work, time to stick to the rules and time to be patriotic. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in this report, you have seen and heard the stories that we were flogged here that Mutula Kilonzo Jr. has talked about, I have talked about it, I even raised a question here, the issue of hospital equipment. The Government entered into a fixed contract. I am happy you have taken the chair as a distinguished lawyer and professor of law, you know what a fixed contract means. In this fixed contract, if you may remember, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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