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    "id": 45862,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Obure",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Public Works",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Christopher Mogere Obure",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, furthermore, the construction industry is fragmented, lacking in skills and organizational capacity and, therefore, we cannot take advantage of the opportunities available nationally and within the region. The local industry, further, lacks a legislative framework for centralized registration. Therefore, this leads, again, to fragmentation of the registration process. Therefore, you will find situations where Government Ministries are doing their own separate registration for administrative purposes. There is no central registration mechanism and, therefore, we cannot discipline contractors. If one contractor has been found to do a shoddy job in one Ministry, he quickly moves to another Ministry and enjoys the same privileges, because he can work in other Ministries even when he has been blacklisted in another Ministry. This is all undesirable and the consequence of all these is what we have seen, including collapsing buildings in urban centres often occasioning loss of lives. We have seen poorly constructed infrastructure, delays in completion of works with cost overruns, pending bills and stalled projects all impacting very negatively on the national economy."
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