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    "id": 1016192,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1016192/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "A linen trolley, kitu cha kusukuma nguo from one ward to the laundry for cleaning is being procured for Kshs300,000. It ordinarily costs just about Kshs15, 000 to 20,000. All these obscenities are eating into the taxpayers’ money. They are eating into money from our counties that can hardly make ends meet. People are dying in queues at hospitals because there are no anti-malaria drugs. You saw a woman delivering on the road in Pumwani. People are drinking dirty water and money is being used in such an obscene manner. This House should stand up and be counted and bring to an end the MES saga. It was a good idea executed horribly; a good idea abandoned along the way because probity and accountability flew through the window. The contractors who participated in this were contracting with the Government of the Republic of Kenya. Where was due diligence from the Government of the Republic of Kenya? In every contract there is the superior party. The procurer of goods and services has to take into account, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., the doctrine of caveat emptor which means buyer be aware. You cannot just go and buy a torch at over Kshs1 million and say you have value for money. That is why we have said this company called PKF that assessed and gave green light to this project and all that participated be held accountable. Unlike many other inquiries, we have said that agencies of investigations must within the next three months report back to this House what they have done in furtherance of our recommendations so that this House does not, should not, and should never act in vain."
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