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    "id": 557879,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/557879/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ochieng",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2955,
        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
        "slug": "david-ouma-ochieng"
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. You know, even the President is from the majority side. So, they should not want to speak when the President has already spoken. Sometimes, it is always good--- The law says that when the President refers a matter to this Assembly, he gives reasons. I am so convinced about the reasons given by the President. We live in this country. There are some contracts that money is not the problem. So, you cannot talk about equal weight. Most of the time, what you want to do is delivery. For example, in those days when we had local contractors tarmacking roads, someone would take 20 years to do a road and yet, another person would take one year only. If you were to follow what the President is saying in his Memorandum, parameters always differ depending on a case by case basis. I want to agree with him on that. Secondly, the idea that this will be prescribed by the accounting officer in the tender documents for me is good enough. Once it is prescribed in the tender document, then it cannot be changed subsequently. The best thing to do is that when we appoint accounting officers, we should be clear that we appoint them to act according to the law and we appoint them knowing that they know what to do. So, we cannot always start everything assuming that someone will abuse it. We should start by giving the officers we entrust the benefit of the doubt. I support."
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