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    "id": 1241214,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "I plead with Members of the National Assembly. Once we deal with this Bill and it crosses over to the other House, please, let them look at the good content in the Bill and fast track it, so that we save businesses. I have so many people--- In Nyamira, we owe contractors and suppliers more than Kshs1.7 billion. Those people come to our offices thinking that we will perform some magic yet it is a problem that is beyond us. Madam Temporary Speaker, once we enact this Bill, there will be timelines within which to pay contractors. If you do not pay, you are penalised through interest. This is how we will address this issue. Sen. Mandago, I am sure Sen. Kisang’ is not saying that governors directly award contracts. We know the sweet language that is there in procurement laws. However, there is what we call influence peddling by governors. Not specifically you but there are some governors who are good at peddling influence. They are the ones who determine who gets what contract – their supporters, friends and associates – and those are the only people who get paid. The ones who are not associated with some governors are never paid. Then we have the problem of transition. For example, maybe the governor who took over from you would say, we will not pay anybody who did business with Sen. Mandago’s regime. That is a big problem. Let us be candid and call out governors on this matter. Let them appreciate that governments are successions. When you leave office, you pay the people who were there and did business. That is how you create faith in successive regimes. Let us have transparency, accountability and fairness in the way we award contracts and how we pay people who have done business for us."
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