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    "id": 878740,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/878740/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": "Kimunya to know the basic tenets of an economy. There are some irrefutable laws in economics that you cannot change. One is that you have to live within your means. We will draw a budget of Kshs3 trillion whereas in reality, maybe, all we can afford is Kshs1.7 trillion. Let us go back to those ministries, SAGAs and departments and tell them that we have to prioritise those things that will work towards building a sustainable Kenya. When we talk about debt levels of this nature, we are not working for posterity. We are in the era of the Big Four Agenda. It is the marshal plan that will be the mid-term policy that drives us towards Vision 2030. Looking at this BPS, it suffers the twin tragedy of first, lack of an overarching framework. We cannot clearly tell what the agenda is, what the strategies are and what the tangible policies which would come with a result matrix are for the Big Four Agenda. That is one tragedy. The second tragedy is that there is no clear investment in the Big Four Agenda. The BPS 2019 does not tell us how they are shifting resource allocation to housing, health, infrastructure and industry. We realise that there could be marginal additions of budget allocations to some issues that are geared towards the Big Four Agenda. In the real sense, we are not investing in the Big Four if this is what we will go with as a BPS."
}