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    "id": 878730,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/878730/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nandi Hills, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Alfred Keter",
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        "legal_name": "Alfred Kiptoo Keter",
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    "content": "the manifesto of the Jubilee Government, what the Treasury is proposing and what the Kenyans are facing. If you talk about the Big Four Agenda, you have to address manufacturing because it is among the Big Four Agenda. When you look at the BPS, nothing is coming up that is going to improve manufacturing. If you talk about healthcare, it is not just about the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) that is going to address universal healthcare. It is bigger than NHIF. We must have universal healthcare that is sustainable and that can meet the test of time. If it is about the question of food security, let us see the Government taking responsibility in terms of improving the fertiliser distribution to farmers. Let us have subsidised fertiliser to allow farmers to use less of their inputs to achieve more output. If you look at the other pillars of the Big Four Agenda, they are not replicated here. There is a big disconnect. We have talked about the public debt. We have borrowed so much. We have borrowed a whopping Kshs5 trillion. If you are to make an assumption that Kenyans are about 50 million in number, then it will mean that every Kenyan, including the children who are born today, owe foreigners Kshs100,000. It is crazy. A one-day old child has a Kshs100,000 bill to sort out. What did we do with the Kshs5 trillion? Nobody knows. There is a team which was discussing the viability of the SGR and they came up with some costing saying it will cost someone about Kshs140,000 to have his cargo or a 40-foot container transported from Mombasa to Nairobi, which is way too much. It costs Kshs50,000 to get it to Nairobi, but the handling cost is ever increasing. Most of them are now resorting to use our roads to transport their cargo and it will delay because of the challenges that they are facing from Mombasa to Nairobi. As a country, we need to see how we approach corruption cases so that we reduce leakages. We need to see how we are going to improve on revenue collections and then stop living a lie. We must pass a budget that strictly addresses how much we can collect. Let us not dream of other nations to give us resources to address our budgeting process. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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