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    "id": 1078748,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1078748/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Nakuru Town East, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Gikaria",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Gikaria",
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    "content": "There is something that is now becoming a trend. Ministries are basically supposed to deal with policy matters. They should have nothing to do with the actual implementation of the ministry’s activities because we have various departments. However, you find ministries now doing tendering. If you have a department that has by law been mandated to do a specific job, allow that department to undertake that mandate. We were given a few departments under the Energy Act 2019. We bestowed the responsibility of renewable energy to a certain department called the Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation (REREC) but you find the ministry still sticking with some of these very critical functions. One of the other critical issues that we see in our Budget is litigation. Huge sums of money are going to lawyers and sometimes they are not even budgeted for. You wonder how a certain contractor is engaged and then all of a sudden there is some litigation. Huge sums of money are going towards litigation. As Parliament, we should make the respective Cabinet Secretaries or CEOs to take responsibility of the litigation that ends up in losses. Many projects have been terminated. In one case where only Ksh600 million was supposed to be paid, they went to court and they were awarded more than Ksh4 billion with only a balance of Ksh600 million. So, how can we continue with this? There are quite a number of issues but we are going..."
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