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"speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I go on to do so, I want to plead with the Chair. Yesterday, I was so rudely interrupted by some excited Senators to the extent that all my time was consumed by points of order. I want you to protect me to push my point. To answer Sen. (Dr.) Machage, the distinguished Senator for Migori County, he was a Minister in the Kibaki Government and he knows that the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) was costed and awarded as a contract at Kshs200 billion to the China Road and Bridge Company. When the Jubilee Government came in, they suspended the contract, re-awarded it after re-costing and inflated it from Kshs200 billion to Kshs358 billion. If that does not smack of corruption and kickbacks, then I do not know what it means. Right now, the Cabinet Secretary for Water and Irrigation is embroiled in an endless and protracted argument with his Permanent Secretary on an award of a huge contract. The only inference one can draw is that they are fighting over “eating”. There are many others and we do not want to waste time going into all those things."
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