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    "id": 76440,
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    "speaker_name": "Eng. Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to thank the Assistant Minister for the answer but you will realise that he has not tabled any payroll from any of the Chinese contractors. So, his claims that they are not under- paying our people cannot be verified. I hope that he will take steps to rectify that. It is known all over Africa, for example, in Kenya, Zambia and Mozambique that where Chinese presence is most felt, they have been accused of many things which include routine violation of labour laws, occasional exhibition of extreme cruelty to the local workers and locals in general and their tendency to import virtually everything from China even those things that can be sourced locally. The Assistant Minister is also aware that the Chinese have made very little attempt to transfer their skills and we saw this recently when we did repairs at Kasarani. It has almost been impossible to repair that stadium for over 20 years. The question that is being asked in many countries in Africa is whether China is a blessing or a curse to Africa."
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