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    "id": 865506,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/865506/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Maina",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "service, but how one would gain from the process. A fundamental question to ask here is: Was any work done? The people who are suffering most are the youth and other vulnerable groups. When the youth accumulate bills and they do not have money to pay for the „services,” so that they are paid their money, then their claims ends up as pending bills. It is illegal for anybody to procure goods or services when he knows he has no money. This is a serious matter. We should go deeper into it. For example, there is need for us to even appoint external auditors to audit some of these bills. It is just not a question of paying. However, we should make it a crime for a county government to deny to give local people jobs. I am aware of a case where somebody committed suicide because he could not make his ends meets after he rendered his services to the county and he was not paid. He was living a very humble life, but he was approached by officers from the county who promised him big business deals in the county. He pumped in a lot of money. He later mortgaged himself and ended up being auctioned. It was very sad. This is a serious matter. It is not what we envisaged when we ushered in devolution into this country. The suffering of our people must be brought to an end. I plead with the Committee to recommend to this House that we engage external auditors so that they can do an analysis of all pending bills in this country."
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