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    "id": 1567676,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1567676/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherarkey",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "ECDE is non-existent and many others stalled. I cannot name roads and vocational training centres. All ECDE centres are dysfunctional. There are stalled projects in Nyamira, Migori, Kakamega, Kericho and Taita-Taveta where they have pending bills of over Kshs1.5billion. Is it possible, as a House, to form a select committee to audit stalled projects? Alternatively, we can allow the Committee on Finance and Budget jointly with the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) to look at the stalled projects, including those in Meru County. That is the only time we will get value for money. I remember Hon. Oparanya tried to build a hospital, the Kakamega County Referral Hospital worth Kshs6 billion in 10 years and could not succeed. The national Government was supposed to pick it up. Is there a possibility of doing an audit of stalled projects, especially by county governments? I hope the Leader of Majority, who sits in the Senate Business Committee, can provide us with a way forward on how we can handle stalled projects. We also have Kidundu"
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