{"id":129877,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/129877/?format=json","text_counter":265,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Mr. Samoei","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":204,"legal_name":"William Samoei Ruto","slug":"william-ruto"},"content":"Mr. Speaker, Sir, it may look like we did not consider the facts. However, I want to assure the Member that we did. These are people who have been on a payroll for the last three years. They were being paid without doing any work. After sometime, it became difficult even to pay salaries. We had arrears of up to eight months. So we had people on the payroll, who were not doing anything. Arrears accumulated and"}