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    "id": 45516,
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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": "Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have problems in road construction particularly grading of roads. We do not have any means of regulating how graded roads should last and their quality. Once a contract is given out, the quacks will pick murram of any quality, go and spread it on a road and within one rainy season, the road is gone. The public has lost money. There is no value for that money and there is no recourse. I want to urge the Minister that once this law is passed, it should bring in place the Authority immediately. I would want him to expand the Clauses in the Bill for the authority to also have its original jurisdiction and authority to investigate where shoddy work has been done. It should be capacitated to look at final products. If a road has been done and you want to issue the final certificate, the Authority should have an opportunity and the capacity to hire professionals to inspect the road parallel to the Ministry officials or whichever authority, so that we get value for money. We have also had cases where a building is constructed and when it reaches the sixth floor, it just collapses. We had the case of the collapsed building along Ronald Ngala Street. We were told that this construction was taking a floor every three days. It cannot possibly happen. Even lay people in construction know that you need about 21 days to cure a floor before you move on to the next. When you construct a seven storey building in two months, you obviously know that something has gone tragically wrong. We lose lives. We lose money and space."
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