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    "id": 947022,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/947022/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Mbadi",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "This also needs to come out clearly. It is not true as my classmate, Hon. Musimba, has said that we are allowing the Government to borrow Kshs9 trillion. That is not correct. Let us be clear. This is where, we, as a House, are failing. Henceforth, we must hold the Government to account every year when we are making the budget on how much they will borrow for that year. The Government has a debt ceiling of Kshs9 trillion, but the amount we have allowed them to borrow this financial year is only Kshs635 billion. If they borrow any amount in excess of that, they will violate the Appropriations Act and the laws that we pass in this House. So, we are not telling the Government to go and borrow Kshs9 trillion. When we had a meeting with the National Treasury, we were very clear that the Kshs9 trillion should take Kenyans to, at least, 2024 without asking us again to change the debt ceiling."
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