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    "id": 911678,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "I know that the stake in some of these Government projects is so high – it is high octane – such that many people would want to move to court and maybe block a project. Because of procurement procedures and the existence of the Public Procurement Oversight Authority (PPOA), people would move to court because of lack of public participation; or maybe the fact that there were vested interests, and somebody else was awarded the projects. This has led to some of the stalled projects in counties. What does this tell us? We do not want to reduce the Judiciary to become a rubber stamp of illegalities in terms of ensuring that the projects go on. If public participation was not done in particular projects in Machakos County, then that illegality cannot be sanctified through a court of law. What we are saying is very simple; that governors must be aware that there are procedures to be followed in developing and putting in place the projects that we have in the counties. Therefore, as much as there is this partnership that the President was requesting for between the Judiciary and the Executive Arms to solve some of these things through arbitration, we should do so in such a way as to ensure that we resolve some of these issues in a non-adversarial and non-strenuous manner such that we have amicable solutions for the projects. I am happy that the PDU and President Uhuru Kenyatta are very keen on that. Madam Temporary Speaker, I have even seen in some counties, led by the PDU, some County Commissioner there, perambulating and masquerading on which projects were being done by the national Government. However, I suspect there is mischief there. This is because there are some clever governors who have seized the national Government projects and are doing politics about it by saying that they are the ones who have done those projects. Therefore, the PDU is just being mischievous; they are just guarding their territory so that governors do not continue getting credit on national"
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