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    "id": 1108377,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1108377/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13162,
        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
        "slug": "moses-otieno-kajwang"
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    "content": "Even though it is all in comedy and fiction, the nation has never been treated to the antics of a gentleman from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). That is the guy who uses several tricks to convert paper into money. Young people can tell you the antics of the gentleman who uses “ Ngamwaya Kemikal ”. These are the same kind of fraudsters that have been going to county governments offices. How could a right thinking county government with a budget of Kshs6 billion then announce to the world that Kshs560 billion was coming? That was a clear setup for a con. I urge the EACC to expedite its investigations and tell the people of Homa Bay the truth; whether indeed Kshs200 million was stolen from the County Government of Homa Bay. If, indeed, it was then those who were in office at that time should be held culpable. Time passed and we headed into another competitive election. We had another PPP. The first one for agro city were investors from Oman. The second time we had investors from Turkey. The investors from Turkey came and promised to build a Kshs3.8 billion Level 6 Hospital with 210 beds and the project would be completed within a year. The governor went there with his executive committee members with a caterpillar and they broke ground. That was in 2018. To date, the Homa Bay County Teaching and Referral Hospital is described by almost everyone as a death chamber. Of course, I visited and I think the public is a little bit unkind because you do not judge a book by the cover. The exterior is very decrepit, but inside the beams have some little improvements. What we have not seen is the Kshs3.8 billion PPP project that the county had promised. As the Senator for Homa Bay, when the Kshs3.8 billion PPP project was announced, I became skeptical following the agro city scandal. Therefore, I visited the PPP unit at the National Treasury. I can tell you that, that unit has got some of the sharpest and brightest young men and women this Republic has within the investment circles. They gave me the procedure prescribed in the Act for publicly initiated proposals. They told me clearly that what had happened in my county was nowhere close to a PPP because some people from Turkey came and had a conversation with the governor. They got excited and the next day, they launched and announced. That is not a PPP. It is only a PPP once a proper feasibility study has been done. Technical, financial, ecological factors should also be considered. You have to look at the entire breadth. You have to look at issues of sustainability and value for money. Therefore, for any governor who wishes to cut corners in rushing to sign contracts with foreigners or people who go to them simply because they have either bleached their skins or are of a lighter complexion, and so, everyone thinks they are investors, we must remind them that this law that hopefully this House will pass this afternoon will be the yardstick with which they will be measured. Once this House passes this Bill, some projects that have been hanging and stuck in the pipeline, such as Magwagwa Dam that has been pushed by the Lake Basin Development Authority---"
}