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    "id": 877530,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/877530/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "If there is no economic growth, we cannot raise higher revenues. Again, there is a disconnect and that has been ably put out by the Mover of the Motion, between the growth in GDP and growth of our revenue. If you go down to look at the details, you will find it is caused by slow growth of income tax, something that should be straightforward. Either our companies are not making profits or we are not creating more job opportunities, which is the case. Our people continue to remain poor and even become poorer and even the youth cannot get jobs because of slowed economic growth. I see a sense of hopelessness. My colleagues also experience it in constituencies among our youths because they cannot find jobs. In fact, they resort to us. Many Members here when they face election, and it happened to me in the last elections, the biggest question you are asked by the youth is how many of them you have employed, as if you are an employment bureau. That is because the youth have reached a level of hopelessness. It has resulted in high levels of insecurity mostly in urban areas, but it is soon spreading fast to rural areas."
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