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    "id": 1145017,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1145017/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gatanga, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Joseph Nduati",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Nduati Ngugi",
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    "content": "Another important thing is payment. We are talking about procuring jobs, awarding and evaluating the jobs, but the critical thing is payment. We have seen most of our people suffer because Government awards jobs, but do not make enough provisions to pay for the jobs. I have always proposed that a good model is the NG-CDF where when awarding a job, the money is there and one is paid on time. This is something we have requested the Government to do. If we use the NG-CDF formula, people will not suffer. We will create great businessmen and we will not need the Chinese here. Our local people are also able to perform very well. They can perform but when they are not paid, and the Chinese are paid by their bank, how do we expect our local people to provide the services? In the 1970s, our local people used to perform very well until something happened in the 1990s and the 2000s, where we find that a majority of our people doing even small jobs were not paid on time. This one has demotivated many of them. We cannot be talking about Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and encouraging our young people to join TVETS to do masonry and welding so that in future, they can become contractors. But in the villages they see people who started well but have become broke. How are we going to take them there? That is why we see a majority of our young people are not willing to join the polytechnics."
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