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    "id": 911717,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/911717/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Maina",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 75,
        "legal_name": "Ephraim Mwangi Maina",
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    "content": "Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I support this timely Motion. Why does a project stall? It is either because the money that was allocated to it is not enough or the projects were started when they had not been budgeted for or from the onset, the projects were meant for nothing else, but to be a conduit to get money out of the kitty. I ask my colleague, Sen. Kibiru, it is not enough to say that we pay for all the projects. There is need for this Motion, when it becomes a Bill, to look further and ask the cause of the stalling projects. That is even more important. Stalling of projects in this country is a characteristic everywhere. To this day, there are some Nyayo projects that have never been completed. You will find a district headquarters which was started 20 years ago, but it has never been completed. There is another reason today as to why projects stall. Sometimes projects are commissioned politically and there is no money. This is done by governors and even the national Government. Therefore, this Motion needs to somehow state that it is a crime to start a project with some deliberate move or another purpose, and then it stalls. This should not be allowed. Madam Temporary Speaker, Members in this House can keep talking about county governments and that they should do this or that. Nobody follows the law deliberately or willingly. That is why when God created the earth, he saw that man will not follow the law and he gave 10 commandments and serious consequences in case anyone disobeyed. It is not enough for this House to keep shouting that we want this and that in the counties. Let me repeat what I said in the morning; it is high time we told Kenyans why we are sometimes unable to enforce things in counties. Of course, there is the question of legislation. Besides that, it is the capacity that we have. We have no capacity and this"
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