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    "id": 945523,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/945523/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Committee on Finance and Budget. In substance, this is not just a normal financial issue; the issue of debt ceiling is of immense national importance. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, some of us are not financial experts because our training is not in finance. I am sure that the two Committees will do their best to call for experts and listen to presentations from various Kenyans and separate the facts from the myths, as well as propaganda from the truth. The Committees should come back to this House with information that will help the country. I know that the National Assembly did their part. However, if you ask any citizen of this Republic what they really did, people only know that something was passed, but there is no public conversation about what was said, what it means and in reference to what. If we say that we are enhancing the debt ceiling, what is it in reference to and to achieve what targets when? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, those are some of the explanations that I am hoping the Committees, in their joint sittings, will expound and come back to this House to educate us. This is so that even if we agree with the National Assembly to enhance the debt ceiling or reduce it, we will do it with scientific information that has been contributed by the citizens. I challenge Kenyans to get out of calling themselves ‘Kenyans on Twitter’ (KOT) and become Kenyans on the ground. Kenyans should get out of the social media platforms and appear before these Committees and assist this country to make the right decision. I will be happy with the editors of the media houses who have made tremendous editorial statements about debt in this country to also seize this opportunity to tell the citizens of Kenya that there is an opportunity for them to influence the decision on the debt ceiling through the Senate of the Republic of Kenya. This opportunity must not be wasted because even those of us seated in this House would like to know what the truth is and what propaganda is, so as to separate the wheat from the chaff for the better of this country. I look forward to a report that when tabled in this House, will help us make a decision that is not just for the immediate benefit of this generation, but the generation of our children and the children of our children. I thank you."
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