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    "id": 1010342,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Gladys Wanga",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 590,
        "legal_name": "Gladys Atieno Nyasuna",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, whatever way you rule today, it is important that the House interacts with the special audit report by the Auditor-General that provided damning issues. The Public Procurement Oversight Authority told us, when we invited them, that the only reason they had not debarred these companies was because of lack of regulations. Therefore, we said that when the regulations are put in place, they should be debarred. We should not let them off the hook just because when this was happening, the regulations were not in place. It was not that there were no provisions for debarment. It is only that the how of debarment had not been defined in regulations. We want to protect this country. When we are given a job of overseeing, we want to do a thorough job, so that this country does not lose money. We plead with the House to read the Report and see where we are coming from as a Committee, so that we do not just say that this or that should be removed or just drop it on the basis of a technicality. On technicality, I am glad that Hon. T.J. is now in the Committee and is able to advice on some of these legal issues, but on the others, the Committee has a big point."
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