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    "id": 1076789,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kitui Rural, CCU",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Mboni",
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        "legal_name": "David Mwalika Mboni",
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    "content": "their ICT services and recruit more staff and train them so that they can collect revenue more efficiently. The country should go for concessionary loans, which are cheaper and have a long repayment period so that we do not strain the Exchequer. The country should also move quickly to embrace PPP projects. This concept was introduced in the country 10 years ago but since then we have had only two PPP projects. The current one, which is on-going, is the Expressway along Mombasa Road. We need more of these projects so that at least we can reduce pressure on the Exchequer. I like the observations and recommendations made by the Committee, one of them being on the pending Bills which currently stand at Kshs90 billion. These pending Bills are crippling businesses. They are causing havoc to business people. Moreover, many businesses have gone under because of pending bills. The Committee recommends the setting up of a Fund to settle existing verified pending bills and court awards. I think this is a very good recommendation if it means taking concessional loans to pay these debts. I think that would be the way to go. The second recommendation of the Committee is that stalled projects should be completed before any Government Ministry, Department and Agency (MDAs) start new ones. If we have a project which we have started and it is not benefiting this country, it is a loss. In addition, we are undertaking most of these projects through loans. We service a loan when the country is not benefiting from the project. To me this is a very important recommendation. Another recommendation is on duplication of functions. This is a song we have been singing all through. You find a Government Department doing the same thing that is being done by another Department. Moreover, there are staff and financial commitments to those Departments. Therefore, rationalisation and streamlining of functions to eliminate duplication should be undertaken. In addition, this country should be able to save many resources. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a terrible thing because SDGs are very instrumental in poverty reduction and sustainable economic growth. The National Treasury should come up with plans on how they will fund these projects so that, at least, we reduce poverty which is at very high levels currently."
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