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    "id": 45513,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have a lot of cases in this country where contractors are awarded contracts, paid public funds and they abandon sites before they finish their work. We have other cases where they knowingly and willfully carry out very substandard works, particularly on roads construction. You find that money has been paid; a 30 kilometre road is being done. By the time they finish, the road where they started is completely worn out. The public has no remedy because there has been no regulatory authority. Any quack in this country with money in a briefcase can become a contractor. They will go and get contracts. They have no knowhow, no capacity, no equipment and yet, they continue business as usual. The amount of money this country loses in the hands of incompetence in construction is enough to do as many tarmacked roads as one can possibly imagine. I think it is now time that this country and this Parliament gave the country a proper regulatory framework that will manage contractors in terms of their output, competence and ability to do the work."
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