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    "id": 862582,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kimilili, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Didmus Barasa",
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        "legal_name": "Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this very important Bill because it seeks to ensure that contracts are not just negotiated poorly and signed by some officers. But that the Attorney General or county attorneys go through such contracts before they are signed. As a country, we have lost a lot of money through corruption. One time I was told that a contractor could just walk into an office and propose a service that he or she could deliver. Whether he or she is delivering oxygen or not, they would sit down, craft some kind of document and sign and then the Government losses monies in terms of payment of those services. This Bill seeks to tighten the noose on corrupt contractors and their agents that their days are numbered. It is coming at a time when we have lost a lot of money in NYS I and NYS II. This Bill is timely. My only concern, which I think we will try to address during the Committee of the whole House, is to make it clear that even contracts that have put this country into debts… You realise at times when Government delegations go to other parts of the world like in Europe, you hear that they have signed some kind of contracts committing this country to some loans. We need to be very clear during that time so that we also seek to cure and address the fact that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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