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    "id": 972000,
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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": " I am a bit very unhappy with this amendment. Always, levies of this nature are levied to help spur economic growth and development. That is why we have the Fuel Levy Fund. That is why we came up with this Railway Development Levy. When we are going to spend this money in running and expending recurrent expenditure, it is a reflection of a failure on our part as a country. This SGR business should have been well thought out before it was executed. If it is not able to sustain itself, then as a country we must own up. The leadership of the country, those who did financial assessments should come out and apologise to Kenyans. They should tell us why they took a direction where we have a project for which we have borrowed money to implement and it cannot pay for itself. How then do we dip our fingers into levies that were meant to do development projects expecting them to support recurrent expenditure? I am very unhappy with this. I cannot support this unless I am persuaded properly. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I oppose."
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