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    "id": 1078750,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Uriri, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Mark Nyamita",
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        "legal_name": "Mark Ogolla Nyamita",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity. I will speak on behalf of the Departmental Committee on Information, Communication and Innovation and also maybe on my own behalf to give my thoughts on this budget-making process. Let me begin by thanking my colleagues in the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the long hours that they actually took to listen to the departmental committees and finally come up with recommendations that have since been tabled on the Floor of this House. Some of those deliberations went late into the night. In fact on one particular day, I think we sat late until midnight but I think it is for the greater good not only of this House but for the country. With regard to the Ministry of ICT, one of the things that stood out for me is the pending bills. In the State Department of Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) and State Department of Broadcasting we have pending bills of about Ksh1 billion and Ksh1.9 billion, respectively. Part of these pending bills relate to local suppliers. In this particular Budget there is no provision. This is extremely dangerous because these are the people that the same Government is hoping to collect taxes from. If we do not pay them for services that they have rendered, we are killing ourselves. Within this Ministry, there has been extreme and high expenditure in the Ministry of Information, Communication and Technology, specifically in the State Department of Information, Communication and Technology under the National Optic Fibre Backbone Infrastructure (NOFBI) project. However, the output of this project has not been quite something tangible. One of the things that we have noted is that we need a robust..."
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