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    "id": 45517,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/45517/?format=api",
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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, if this country has to move to the level of a developed country, or a medium developed country in line with Vision 2030, the quality of our public structures, including roads, is very key. Sometimes you wonder, if we really want to build local capacity, why should we have local contractors? They are given jobs to do and they do not do them. You see them mushrooming elsewhere. I think I heard hon. Kiunjuri mention this. You find a contractor has abandoned the construction of a public market in Garissa, and then he is given another one in Machakos. He abandons the Machakos one and he is given another one in Nakuru. The cycle goes on. You find a contractor has messed up a road in Western and he resurfaces in Nyanza and he is given another road there. It goes on and on and on. I want to urge the Minister to have very stiff penalties for erring contractors, including criminal responsibility, because it is a loss of public funds. Where a contractor has done a road that is not, by any description, a road, such a contractor should not be given an opportunity to construct any other road. Such a contractor should be surcharged and prosecuted."
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