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    "id": 1478546,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1478546/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr) Oburu",
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        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also want to take this opportunity to welcome the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning to this Parliament. I know when I was there as an Assistant Minister, he used to ask me very tough questions and I would struggle to answer some of them. I just want to ask strictly one question, as you have said. I am just curious that when the team went to China, they only negotiated for payment of Chinese contractors and yet, there are many other contractors who have also stalled. They have moved out of construction sites because of pending bills. I did not clearly hear from the Cabinet Secretary what they plan to do with these others and why were the Chinese too selfish just to agree to fund only their own. If you pay the pending bills, what happens now for further construction? Is it just paying the debt for these contractors? What arrangement is there to make sure that those roads which were funded by the Chinese continue and are finished because that is in the interest of Kenyans? We do not want to know whether you have paid them. They are pending bills. Pending bills are only pending, but we want to know the arrangements you have for the continuation and completion of those roads and what will happen to those ones which are not funded by the Chinese. Why are they only funding the ones for their contractors and not the others?"
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