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    "id": 1378574,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Soy, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Kiplagat",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Allow me to contribute and support the Report of the PAC that has been moved by our able Chairman, CPA Hon. John Mbadi, who is very committed. We congratulate him for a Report well done. I call upon the Members to support it. As members of the PAC, we unanimously agreed on it. We call upon Members on both sides of the House to agree with the Committee, so that we can pass it. The amount of leakages within Government MDAs is alarming. I will mention a few cases. We sign contracts with donor partners who give us funds and some money also come from the Government of Kenya. The contract is designed by the donors to suit them. Our Government officers agree with them knowing very well that they cannot raise the counterpart funding. The contract says that the project can only begin if the Government contributes its fair share. What happens? The money from the donor lies in the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) because the project cannot proceed. The contractor cannot proceed to the site leading to interests on delayed payments. We need to investigate the interests on delayed payments. In some circumstances, the amount due and interest on payment are the same figure. There is a contractor who has a pending bill of around Ksh1.5 billion, and then the interest on delayed payment is Ksh1 billion. If you sum total, you realise that this country might be losing up to around half a trillion in The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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