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    "id": 1076233,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1076233/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Bondo, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Gideon Ochanda",
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        "legal_name": "Gideon Ochanda Ogolla",
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    "content": "How can payment of more than Kshs300 million be done to a non-existent company for services that are mentioned in passing and the following week that company is no longer there and the money is gone? Sometimes we need to vindicate internal auditors. They are so busy in the districts chasing small things that the NG-CDF finances, but they do nothing at the departmental headquarters in terms of tracing, for example, Kshs300 million. There is a big problem. If you were heading the Government and a report like this comes, one should really be sleepless. Somebody is supposed to supply grass, and by the end of the day, the service is paid for when actually nothing has been delivered. There is a big problem. There is a connection between wastage, corruption and debt. We are moving this country to very serious levels of debt and yet the amount of money we waste is so much. The amount of money that is looted is a lot. It has been demonstrated very clearly by the Chairman that every department that had an indication of development money had cases of corruption. It means we are talking about things that are very clear. It does not need rocket science for somebody to follow the issues. Why do we allow this as a country to go on? These are the fundamental questions that we should really look at. Why do we waste on one hand, pilfer on the other hand, and then the third hand goes into borrowing? Why do we borrow then? Instead of borrowing, why can we not close the pilferage and wastage points? We will then reduce borrowing. Some of these things are so simple yet everybody is complaining about borrowing. We are finalising budget- making this week. To what extent are we able to check that the BAC has vindicated some departments that unless you give us information about where the Kshs350 million went, we are not giving you any money? Why can we not do that as a House? That is what the public is looking out for. When we do not do it, then definitely the public is right in blaming Parliament. Parliament must wake up. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker."
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