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"content": "Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. What I was saying is that, we are throwing good money after bad ventures. The money we are throwing to help pay off those debts could be used by the people of Ugenya to access seed and fertilizer. In 2007, a Report was presented to this House by the then Minister for Finance, hon. Peter Kenneth, about how much was remaining with regard to the Kenren fertilizer agreement. We are talking about Kshs.4.3 billion that we continue to pay for things that were never received. We are still mobilizing money to help us build a fertilizer firm. We could also use that money to pay the teachersâ salaries. We have Government officials and politicians who sit down, work out on some projects that finally turn out to be called âvulture fundsâ. We are selling our country; we are mortgaging our country; we enter into debts and we know we will not pay. We have agreements where a few individuals receive colossal sums of money. The Government is indebted. We continue to pay by saying those are Treasury debts. I agree with the Mover of this Motion. After we pass this Motion, Public Investments Committee must sit down, go through all Government documents and bring back to this House a list of such kind of contracts or schemes. The Committee should show how much the"
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