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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Chimera",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to this very fundamental Bill. From the onset, I congratulate Sen. Mariam Omar for such a wonderful piece of legislation. Also allow me to express my sincere apologies for missing out on your visit to the Langata Women’s Prison. I am sure as my colleague Sen. Cherarkey has put forth, that was a very fantastic and an amazing job. Keep it up, women colleagues in this House. Before devolution came into place, it was difficult for any ordinary Kenyan to get a National Government tender, but shockingly enough, payment was guaranteed. When we got the 2010 Constitution and we started rolling out devolution, it became very easy for a Kenyan young man and woman to get a tender. However, it became very difficult for that young man and woman to be paid. Governors have rogue to an extent that they pick whom they want to pay. We have cases of governors playing politics with these tenders. A young man gets a tender and approaches a lending institution - a microfinance or an individual like Sen. Oketch Gicheru since he has money from the server story - and he is unable to get payment in good time--- The young man has loans to service. Fortunately, or unfortunately, he gets auctioned. We have lost people. People have lost their lives because of going through depression and stress out of chasing for payments. The same issue of delay in payments has been promoting corruption in country governments. You cannot be paid without having to part with some small money so that your payment is guaranteed. I want to thank Sen. Mariam Omar for this particular Bill because we are now able to cure that mischief. For the first time, I want to appeal to our governors, counties and the CoG that now they do not have any reason to delay payment for our entrepreneurs. Devolution came to spur development and to create millionaires out of many hustlers out there and these hustlers depend on county governments. It was very difficult back in the day to get government contracts and services because you had to know someone and all the money was centralized in Nairobi. Right now, it is a sad situation"
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