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    "id": 1238104,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1238104/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wambua",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 13199,
        "legal_name": "Enoch Kiio Wambua",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you are seated on that Chair and as the Senator for Meru County, when you say that oversight will have to be done at whatever costs, I support you 100 per cent. This is because you cannot begin to understand how a Government institution is the one that is precipitating the stoppage of the construction of a Government institutional administration. I have had the same experience in Kitui County. The people of Kitui County will tell you that the route you want to take is the route that was taken by the Senator of Kitui County between 2017 and 2022, following leads where they take you. How can the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) be the one responsible for the situation that an entire county now finds itself in? They came to Kitui County around 2017 and took away files on procurement. They said they could not clear the contractors to be paid because there were issues with the procurement process. Three or four years down the line, we had a number of contractors that were bankrupted, whose property was sold by banks simply because the EACC is holding onto a file and saying they were still investigating. Now, see what is happening in Tharaka Nithi County. Somebody has been awarded a project to construct the County Headquarters, the EACC comes in and says that there is a problem and so, the construction cannot continue. Ten years down the line,"
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