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    "id": 1007353,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kiambu CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gathoni Wamuchomba",
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    "content": "I am excited that this piece of legislation will fill that gap, but we should actually amend the law to sort out these issues once and for all. There is a legal framework on payment for goods and services supplied to public entities. However, we have not come up with clear penalties for failure to pay even after suppliers of goods and services have been verified as having done what they were procured to do. We have heard of young women who have had to go through intimidation. They have had to come up with something so that they could be paid. By “something” I mean ways of bribery. We have had even young women who have to have illegal friendships with some people in these offices so that they can get paid for what they supplied. It is illegal. It is immoral. We must stop this by making sure we come up with serious penalties for anybody who holds anybody’s payment in the name of such demands."
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