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    "id": 967959,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/967959/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Lugari, ANC",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ayub Angatia",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2153,
        "legal_name": "Ayub Savula Angatia",
        "slug": "ayub-savula-angatia"
    },
    "content": "It is not the responsibility of the President of the Republic of Kenya to manage the public debt. It is the responsibility of the experts that the President has employed, starting from the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the national Treasury, the Principal Secretary in charge of the National Treasury and the line officers to manage the debt. If we stand here and complain that President Uhuru’s Government has done this-or-that, it is them to advice the President. As a Member of Parliament for Lugari Constituency, I do not advice the National Government Constituencies Development Fund Lugari. They draft project proposals and bring them to me complete for approval. They are the ones on the ground to tell me what is happening. We mislead the public when we say that President Uhuru has allowed the public debt to balloon. That is not his responsibility. He provides political leadership. The experts must do their work. If they cannot, let them go home. We have the likes of Hon. Wandayi here who are experienced. Look at what they have done in the Report: a wonderful document. Why can he not be the Cabinet Secretary National Treasury? We have a madam there who has done a wonderful job. Why can these people not be absorbed into the system to deliver instead of having some moribund elders at the national Treasury being paid, but doing zero work and sabotaging the work of Government?"
}