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    "id": 45505,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/45505/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kiunjuri",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister for Public Works",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 175,
        "legal_name": "Festus Mwangi Kiunjuri",
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    "content": "Why does this happen? It is because even Ministries, for example, that have no capacity whatsoever to even hire or procure consultants or engineers, will pretend that they can do their work. Look at what happened last year through the Economic Stimulus Programme. The Ministry of Education pretended that they can become contractors and, therefore, they are the ones now doing the construction of centres of excellence across the country. They asked the Ministry of Public Works to go and supervise and yet they do not even know how the contract was tendered. They want to misuse them by calling them only when they are in problems. Look at the Ministry of Health, which also got money through the Economic Stimulus Programme. The Ministry of Health is the one responsible for the construction of health centres across the constituencies. Although the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government has some engineers, they have no capacity whatsoever to supervise, for example, the markets. That is why even today the markets have not been constructed. We do not want to regulate or take responsibility and say that we cannot do this. But because money is involved, we want our brothers and sisters to win these contracts, go ahead and misuse public funds. If we set aside Kshs1 billion in the Economic Stimulus Programme, I can assure you that 60 percent of that money will go to waste. We will have structures that will not last for the next 15 years. Therefore, the Kshs1 billion or Kshs3 billion will be wasted in the next five to ten years, because at the end of the day, over 80 percent of all construction will be substandard."
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