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    "id": 1021305,
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    "speaker_name": "Seme, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr.) James Nyikal",
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    "content": "the assessment is not done quickly and the projects are stopped, then the legal issues and financial implications that will come with the stoppage are actually very expensive. If we are not careful and we blanket-stop all of them, we may run into those legal and financial issues. Many contractors have used that to make a lot of money where they did do not do any work at all. The second reason is that when you stop Government projects, whether funded by the Government or by donors, the projects are likely to die because the funds set aside are now available to be used elsewhere. If you had money set aside for a project and you stop the procurement process, that money is available and can be used elsewhere. What happens in many cases is that such projects die. The third reason why I want the amendment to pass is that if you stop the projects, the officers will lose interest in them. The whole process is stopped and there is a delay. In the end, the projects die. The Committee visited eight dams and they have done a fantastic job. They have made recommendations on what should be done in respect of each dam. My fear is that if you make this recommendation, then it almost nullifies the recommendations they have put in place which indicate what should be done so that the projects can go forward. Their purpose, I believe, was not to stop the projects but to get them done in a proper way by following due diligence, so that we can get value for money. For that reason, I think deleting the word ‘stop’ and replacing it with the word ‘reassess’ will make sure that the projects go on, but all the procurement processes will be reassessed. I repeat, if we use the word ‘stop’, there are chances that these projects will never go on. As I always say, we should not kill…"
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