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    "id": 947075,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/947075/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suna East, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Junet Nuh",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Junet Sheikh Nuh",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, I rise to support this Motion. When people from the National Treasury appeared before this House for the past four years, they kept talking about percentages. When you asked them about the country’s debt, they told you we were at 48 per cent of the GDP. Many laymen do not even understand what 48 and 47 per cent of the GDP means. But when you give someone a figure and tell him that our figure of debt is Kshs5 trillion and our ceiling is Kshs9 trillion, as a layman, they can understand what the country’s debt is. When Mr. Kamau Thugge and Mr. Henry Rotich appear before the Public Accounts Committee and told us that our percentage was at 48 per cent of the GDP, who knew what GDP meant? First, they had to explain what GDP is to the people of Kenya. Second, that the GDP changes; it mutates. Today it is at this and next year it is at that. However, when you talk about a figure, people understand what it is about."
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