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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Muturi",
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        "legal_name": "Justin Bedan Njoka Muturi",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Mr. Gumo is saying \"not more\" but it is information that I have. It goes up by more than double. I want the Ministry to come clear and say what is the extent of variation orders on contracts. By what percentages may they be varied? So, unless the Ministry's experts, the engineers, are not themselves sufficiently qualified, in which case then I will go to the Budget Speech by the Minister for Finance who put them on notice that he is going to hire expatriates, although I do not agree with that. I believe we have qualified people in this country, and particularly, in the Ministry of Roads and Public Works. We do not want variations that are going to raise the constructions cost to sums that even to an ordinary casual observer are seen to be obnoxious. We do not want costs which do not make sense, to borrow the expression by Prof. Maathai. I would like the Ministry to come clear on this because we have seen a lot of distortions. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, once a contractor goes to site on a particular road, we have also seen variations where he has been given other contractors to do roads which are completely unrelated to the first one. The reason, if you ask the Ministry, they tell you it is because the man was on site. However, he is doing completely different works and on different roads. How can that possibly be called a variation order? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to appeal to the Minister, I know he is a workaholic, to ensure that also these malpractices in the Ministry, which we know have been there for a long time, become a thing of the past. I would like to congratulate the Minister for introducing this new equipment because the old ones are dysfunctional. I am particularly, myself, pleased with it. With those few remarks, I beg to support."
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