{"id":546049,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/546049/?format=json","text_counter":523,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Angatia","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":2153,"legal_name":"Ayub Savula Angatia","slug":"ayub-savula-angatia"},"content":"Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I would like to support the Chairman of the Committee on this issue of variation to be done within 12 months. Business is a risky venture. When you are investing in business, you have to insure your business. If there happens to be a downfall in monetary valuation, a disaster or a calamity, the insurance company will cater for that if you insure a project. What has been happening in towns especially Nairobi is a problem of middlemen, brokers and briefcase businessmen. They canvass for these deals and make cuts out of a project variation. A foreign company is awarded a tender in this country, but there are idlers in this town who canvass and say they can do a project variation the second or third month so that they make a cut of 10 or 20 per cent and they share. We want to protect Kenya’s money from brokers."}