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    "id": 991019,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/991019/?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. Let me conclude because I think I have said the bit that I wanted to say. I want to just touch on the two last issues. One is the financial sector, which is likely to face distress. The Government must come up with a strategy to ensure that the financial sector does not come down in terms of financial distress. We must also ensure that the Government does not get into financial distress. Interestingly, even after what I said about the Budget Estimates, even though the Government is not providing funds to respond to COVID-19, you still find our public debt going up. The most unfortunate is that the Government is even proposing to increase domestic borrowing from slightly over Kshs200 billion to over Kshs400 billion and yet it is claiming to be reducing the CBR rate downwards. How on earth would you think of increasing domestic borrowing at this time? My concluding remarks are that the Government should get serious. Even though we are in a crisis, get serious. There are areas in this country where people are dying of floods. Over 100 people have died. The COVID-19 pandemic has killed only 14 in Kenya and yet all the attention is on COVID-19. The people of Budalang’i, Nyando, Karachuonyo, Kochia, Migori, Nyatike and Luanda have been left to struggle on their own. No one thinks about them. Chichi is this country we are living in. The Government should get serious. If you have been sleeping, please wake up. If you have been sleeping because of the “Handshake”, the ““Handshake” did not mean that you now do things the way you want. They must know that minorities still exist. With those remarks, I second."
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