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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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    "content": "complete the projects; the governor is stuck firefighting. That is the problem about some of the things that we have allowed to get into our dictionary of acceptable standards. Pending bills is one of them. Stalled projects is another one. Government borrowing is another one. Madam Temporary Speaker, when we sat in the Mediation of the Division of Revenue Bill, we discovered that the pending debt of this country is not Kshs565 billion as budgeted for in the Division of Revenue that was tabled. It is Kshs800 billion. We are almost getting to the threshold of Kshs1 trillion in debts. I can bet by the end of this financial year, we will have debt at almost Kshs1 trillion. By the time President Uhuru leaves, we are possibly going to have a debt of Kshs2.5 trillion. We have allowed terms like pending bills, stalled projects and borrowing to become part and parcel of our dictionary of words of acceptable standards of financial mismanagement. When I make a speech, I always ask God to help this country because we are reaching almost Kshs1 trillion debt. We cannot get Kshs300 billion for county governments. County governments have pending bills of Kshs100 billion. The Chinese are all over the place. Dear Senators, what makes you think that you are not going to cut a piece of this country to the Chinese? How are you going to pay these debts? They are going to auction this country at the national and county levels. Madam Temporary Speaker, what is worse is that we are going to kill businesses. The young people who are not like the Nyeri tycoon are not going to get a tender. They will not ask for a tender because they will not be paid. Somebody wants to raise the cap for borrowing. God help this country. Thank you for highlighting these issues, Sen. Kibiru. I hope we can get some solutions. My feeling as I support Sen. Kibiru’s Motion is that we need to get rid of these terms in our legal dictionary of financial mismanagement. Let us not have stalled projects and pending bills. They are a euphemism for corruption. We are allowing corruption through the backdoor. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker."
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