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    "id": 896703,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/896703/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mukurweini, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Anthony Kiai",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13439,
        "legal_name": "Anthony Githiaka Kiai",
        "slug": "anthony-githiaka-kiai"
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    "content": "We also needed to hear about what the Government is doing to reduce the debt burden in the country. We cannot continue borrowing money especially from China to finance our infrastructure. We need to ask ourselves if the Standard Gauge Railway is the only thing that we can do. Can we not use that money to develop the road network which will reach far corners of this country? If at all the SGR is going to extend all the way to Kisumu, is it economically viable? If we are now going to have a debt burden of about Kshs1trillion on a single infrastructure which is almost a third of our national Budget, is it viable? Do we need it now or we need to have alternatives? Finally, corruption is going to kill this country. If we do not fight corruption right from the grassroots and from the bottom-up and from up-bottom, then the more we continue talking about corruption, the more it will become like a record that is stuck. We need to take serious action to prosecute corruption. Corruption is not going to be prosecuted through the media and rhetoric, it can only be prosecuted if we empower the national institutions and agencies that have been mandated to fight corruption by giving them motive to fight corruption. I support the President’s Speech. Thank you."
}