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    "id": 1091005,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr.",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo Jnr",
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    "content": "Madam Temporary Speaker, you are a lawyer like me. You know we are actually paid before we even do the work. We request for deposits before we even see the client. That should be the ethos. While I support this Bill, and the reason why even politicians are coming up with all sorts of economics, up down, bottoms up, middle up, wide and apart, sideways and funny things. It is because of these things. You deny the young people money. You make sure they are not paid for little things. Some gentleman has been chasing me in Nairobi here. He supplied beds at Pumwani Hospital and he has not been paid since 2014. People have committed suicide. I know of one family in Machakos County. The lady just committed suicide. It is absolutely sad that you have not prescribed penalties for people who delay people’s payments. There should be penalties. Those penalties should not be borne by the people of that county. If you prescribe a penalty here like Sen. Sakaja has proposed, eventually the people of Makueni County bear the burden of the mistake and misbehaviour of credit officers. Madam Temporary Speaker, we should find a method, Sen. Sakaja, of making sure that this is personal penalty. It is the only way. Surcharge that person’s salary. Go to the Public Finance Management Act and say this is what we call a mistake so that then they do not do these things. I bother to say that these mistakes and delays are done deliberately so that utoe kitu kidogo. It is wrong. I hope this can become law and I hope we will get a good Government. I pray because when you get a good Government with proper national ethos, you do not need to do this. I pray that we can have a good President who can understand what business means and deals. Somebody gives you service, pay them promptly. That is what we are looking forward to. I am praying Sen. Sakaja now that I have been seeing him with the Presidential aspirant every place. They should start talking about these things so that we can give incentives for people to borrow, get credit and do business and continue doing business. Madam Temporary Speaker, M-Shwari is the most popular platform for people who are doing menial jobs like in Nyamakima. I do not know whether you are aware that between 3.00 a.m. and 5.00 a.m. the highest transactions happen during that hour because they are buying eggs, potatoes and vegetables to go and sell them. It becomes easier to even borrow from Safaricom. It is a very sad thing. I hope that we can help these counties. I pray that I am elected as governor. This is because I will make sure that I do it. You do your service, when it is due, you make the payment. That is how we will translate young people. That is my dream to translate young people to quick millionaires for doing proper business. That is the only way we will make sure that young people are not taken advantage of by us the political class. I support."
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