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    "id": 45496,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/45496/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 195,
        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have listened to the hon. Member make very passionate contribution to this Bill. I share some of his sentiments, but I want to take the House down the memory lane. We are now 48 years old, and going to be 49 years old. There are certain things we have done before which we should not be repeating. We did have the National Construction Corporation, which had been established to promote indigenous contractors and give them opportunities to participate in this field. This was in the 1960s and 1970s. What we are doing here is basically trying to reinvent the wheel. We need to ask ourselves, what went wrong? What is it that went wrong, so that we now have to restart things? We are now talking about empowering our people. We are talking so passionately about how foreign contractors have monopolized jobs in our country. The foreign contractors are not to blame. They are here to fill a vacuum, a void which has been created by many years of neglect and omission, and many years of doing things the wrong way. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we used to have provisions that if a local contractor was higher in a tender by as much as 15 per cent, or sometimes 20 percent, the local contractor would be given preference. That has happened before. However, there came an era--- Let us look at the two systems we have been through---"
}