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    "id": 1167598,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1167598/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Navakholo, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Emmanuel Wangwe",
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    "content": "This is purely a Bill that creates an enabling environment for businesses to transact. It is a very disturbing issue that a Government, which is the largest buyer in the economy, cannot pay. The issue is not that the Government is not able to pay; rather it is Government officials who want to trade to make their money in between without doing any business. They are employed by a pen and they want to use that pen to make some millions of shillings in their favour. What happens in most of these situations is that a Government official creates future services by suggesting that he is making a commitment for a project which is not yet there. At the end of the day, the project is established lawfully, procurement is done but the subsequent engagement in terms of finances is not provided for. In other words, it is not in the budget line and that makes it very difficult for the payment to be made in the future. The supplier would have made a prior commitment and his own financial commitment. The financial commitments do not come forth. What is the implication? If the finances were from a bank, then the bank comes to auction the supplier. When he is auctioned many commercial entrepreneurs end up in depression just because of the wrong made by somebody who gave a Local Service Order (LSO) which is not paid in the subsequent period."
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