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    "id": 862630,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka-Nithi CWR, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Beatrice Nyaga",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Beatrice Nkatha Nyaga",
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    "content": "provider and Government. When you are given a service or contract just by word of mouth, it is corruption. At the end of the day and for you to be paid, maybe you have to bribe because you have nothing to show that you gave a particular service. It is important to have rules and procedures. The same procedures should be obeyed by everyone, the giver and the taker. The contracting authority should comply with provisions of the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act and any other law of this country concerning contracting. It is very sad when it comes to payment of the contract or the services the Government has been given, particularly when we give contracts to the youth and the disabled then we take a whole year to pay them. It is very common in the counties and the national Government. They delay payment of these people. It is very discouraging. We are trying to support the youth so that they can make their future. But, it is unfair when you take a whole year without paying them. Maybe they have borrowed this money or taken some loan from whichever quarters yet you do not pay them. They get discouraged. It is the responsibility of the Government to support the youth, the disabled, the women and everyone else. As I wind up, I want to say that we have a responsibility. If you are given a service or giving a service, you need to follow the rules and procedures. They are there, like in this Bill brought here. It is here today but we do not mean we did not have the rules. We have been having them but we do not follow them because of corruption in this country; they need to be followed like yesterday. I support."
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