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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you may recall that this Question was raised here May 10, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1263 last year. Mr. Speaker, in the Chair, cautioned hon. Members about turning this House into a debt collection agency; by asking Questions on behalf of creditors because they have personal interests in those. However, for purposes of this House, the position is as follows:- The Pending Bills Committee (PBC) has been meeting. They received claims from a whole array of contractors. They received claims from contractors. The claims are many. They have identified them and split them into two batches. The first 40 claims amounted to about 70 per of the total value of the claims which was Kshs68,979,274,209.30. Those were 40 claims. Out of those 40 claims, they have categorised them into four after completion of the analysis. The claims that were found payable - I believe those were seven - amounted to only Kshs230,110,446.59. The claims that were found not payable amounted to Kshs68,735293,665.37. Then there is a whole number of claims for which there had been over-claiming. These amounted to Kshs872,920,743.36. We have communicated to all the 40 claimants who were evaluated and cleared within that first batch. The seven who were payable, we have paid the entire Kshs230 million and they have discharged this Government of any further claims on those claims that they had submitted. On all the others, they have been written to and told of the fate of their claims. On those that are being followed for investigations, again, that action is ongoing. On all the others, the second phase of that investigation is ongoing. It is about to be completed and we will take similar steps. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, touching the second issue as raised by the hon. Member, it is very strange that when you do things in public interest, you actually get chastised instead of being praised. That, in terms of the construction that is going on, on Road C69, because of the need to expedite that process, I offered, in the public interest, part of my plot for the contractor to put up their construction site on a temporary basis at no fee at all."
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