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    "id": 1229246,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I would like to congratulate my kid-sister Senator for this important Bill. If we go ahead and enact this Bill, we will now have moved to the direction of what is involved in developed markets. I am aware that in the USA and Canada, the Prompt Payment Bill is a law. Nobody just pushes around suppliers as they wish in the name of the people who handed them the contracts. This Bill will be a redemption and a big win for business people. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we know of very many business people in this country who have been auctioned, not because they are poor business practitioners, but because they took loans and placed collateral on them in the hope that upon completion of the contract, they would be paid. When they ended up not being paid, they got auctioned. I am sure some of you back in your respective counties know of a case or two of people who fell sick with ulcers, high blood pressure, heart attacks and eventually died. On the lower part of Kakamega County in Mumias, there were two business people who lost their lives because they were not paid by the county government. This Bill will make sure that counties look good considering that at the moment, counties are no longer attractive entities for doing business with because they are not paying. The problem is compounded further by the reluctance by the national Government to make immediate timely and prompt releases of shareable revenue as anticipated by this Senate to county governments, so that some of the blame is taken by the governor and the other by the national Government. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am aware that this Bill proposed by Sen. Mariam Omar intends to punish. However, as you go and punish, for example, the heads of county governments, what will you do with the national Government, which has delayed disbursements? We have to think a bit longer and harder about this, so that the governor does not end up carrying or being visited with the ills of the national Government. I cannot end my contribution to this Bill without acknowledging the contribution that was made by the previous Senate. This is a Bill that we are carrying over, and I know"
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