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    "id": 947018,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/947018/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As for my brother, friend and classmate, Hon. Musimba, I request him to bring a law on public participation. We are lacking a law regulating public participation. He has a point, but we need to bring a law that will spell out how public participation needs to be conducted. Let me now contribute to the Motion before us. First of all, we need to be very clear and understand exactly what this House is required to do this afternoon. That is very important. We owe it to the people of Kenya, as their representatives, to explain to them what the National Assembly is doing this afternoon. Hon. Speaker, before 2015, we had a legal framework in place. Through the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act of 2012, which was borrowed heavily from the previous Constitution and statutes, we had a system where the debt ceiling for the country or the maximum that this country could borrow was set in law. This Parliament was required to continuously review it. However, in 2015, we were convinced that we should join the other East African States in defining the debt ceiling or the upper debt limit for our country in terms of percentages to the GDP. Some of us have not been very comfortable with that. I opposed the change from absolute numbers or figures. I was for an average. It is very difficult to define and for people even to understand what the GDP of a country is. Calculating the 50 per cent of it and comparing with the debt level is usually not very easy for ordinary Kenyans. It is very easy for some people, but not for many others."
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