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    "id": 1456944,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1456944/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 170,
        "legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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    "content": "Secondly, it is not a question of my region. It is not a question of my community or my county. We must encourage accounting officers to identify contractors from those counties. It is not because we are denying the contractors from outside the county an opportunity to participate. Nonetheless, this is for the important reason that if we are talking about Homa Bay, Turkana and projects in Kakamega County, when you allow local contractors to partake in these particular tenders, then at the end of the contract, the project is complete and it remains in Homa Bay County. If the contractor was from Homa Bay County, when you pay him, the money remains in Homa Bay County. The risk of allowing these millions of shillings to be given to contractors from outside Homa Bay County or Kakamega or Turkana counties, is that the money leaves the CRF account to the contractor, and that day or the following day. However, it leaves Homa Bay or Turkana or Kakamega counties and migrates to go to where the contractor was coming from. So, it does not circulate in the economy of the local county. Therefore, there is capital flight. If you pay this man who has built a market in Khayega, and the man comes from Kakamega County, this person makes a profit of Kshs30 million. If this person ends up building a house for himself in his home, the local contractors of that home will be from that county and the money will circulate in that place. Those contractors will pay school fees for their children. That money will be in that county. We must discourage that because there are contracts going on in all the 47 counties. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the committee has spoken to the issue of incomplete fixed assets register. I applaud them. I am glad that they have remained hawk-eyed. They flagged it out, although it was resolved---"
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