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    "id": 1200732,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1200732/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, this country cannot move forward unless and until we are accountable for the resources given to us. This Parliament must put its foot down to look at accountability. We have had haemorrhage of resources. This country lost a lot of money in the past regime through corruption and dubious projects that were being done to serve other people’s pockets and not this country. We had the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) scandal and roads that are being built at a cost that is so astronomical that even baffles the engineers who designed them. Somebody sitting at a table is briefed by engineers that a road will cost us Kshs10 million but he says, “No, make it Kshs30 million.” That is the amount of money that we have spent and it is unnecessary. That is why I support the President when he says that we can comfortably cut the Budget of this country by Kshs300 billion. We can comfortably do that because many projects done by the past regime have had exorbitant unnecessary costs to them. The costs were estimated not by engineers but because somebody else said, “I want to make money out of this project. Therefore, increase the cost.”"
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