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    "id": 1076179,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1076179/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "Therefore, I am just basing on this to underscore the fact that public procurement has been used in a manner that is not taking into consideration public interest by public officers. This is because to commit a country and the public to this kind of burden and loans running into billions of shillings without following the laid down procedure and, indeed, to go ahead and treat casually the matter of revenues that originated from this infrastructure is basically to show contempt to the people of Kenya who pay taxes to sustain the public sector. Another example I want to quickly go to is a project that was in the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife. The Ministry of course changed names many times. At one time it was called trade and so on and so forth. This was a project that was conceived way back during the first NARC Government. It was a project concerning consultancy advertisement and communication. This project was being undertaken by a company called Tele News Africa and Atlantic. The contract sum was about Kshs10 million or so. This contract expired some time in 2004. However, it was mysteriously extended. This is because no one owned up to have been responsible for the extension. When it was extended, there was a default in payment of monies owed to those companies. By the year 2010 the money that had accrued from this extension was about Kshs52 million, including interest. Therefore, in 2012 this company went to court demanding to be paid its money. The court ordered that the company be paid Kshs110 million way back in 2012. That is including 26 per cent interest. Again, for some reason, the Government did not pay. The Government neither paid nor appealed the court award. Therefore, come 2017, I think through the advice of the Attorney General then, the Government paid about Kshs285 million because the interest continued to accrue. Remember this was a contract which was originally Kshs10 million. The work had been completed and yet, the money continued to accumulate on the account of failure by Government officials to pay up. They appealed against a court award."
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