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    "id": 1076769,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1076769/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Moiben, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Silas Tiren",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 2364,
        "legal_name": "Silas Kipkoech Tiren",
        "slug": "silas-kipkoech-tiren"
    },
    "content": "The sector already has numerous ongoing and stalled projects. Projects take too long to be completed because of low budget allocations and sequent budget cuts. A Member mentioned that we also have a lot of challenges in agriculture because of pending bills. I do not know what we are supposed to do. My colleague has said something. The debt ceiling can be removed to sort out some of these things. Agriculture is an area that we need to look into because of the pending bills. The State department has a lot of pending bills. For example, in the State Department of Livestock, they have a current pending bill of about Kshs4.2 billion. That one goes to Halal Meat Products and Associate Architects Limited who have a pending bill of Ksh25.9 million. In the crop sector, we have a pending bill to the tune of Ksh10 billion. So, I believe that something should be done to address some of these challenges. The crop and cereal sectors have challenges because of that. We are telling the National Treasury that they really need to work on that so that we are able to overcome some of the challenges facing the agricultural sector."
}