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    "id": 920187,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/920187/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Nyamunga",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Rose Nyamunga Ogendo",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I would like to add one or two things on the first Statement that has been made by my colleague, Sen. Outa, concerning the Lake Basin Mall. In the last Parliament, the Mall was ready and so many issues were raised. I was serving then in the Committee on Finance and Budget. We had an opportunity to visit the Mall and inspect it. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Mall was 100 per cent, if not 99 per cent, complete. There was nothing holding the contractor from handing over the Mall to the LBDA so that it could be utilized. I am currently serving in the Committee on Devolved Government and Intergovernmental Relations and we are just waiting for this Statement to be brought to the Commitee so that we make sure that this Mall is handed over to the LBDA so that it can benefit the people of Kisumu. This is the only Mall or project that we can count from the LBDA ever since it was established. It is the first proper and major project that we can lay our hands on. Delaying it any further for whatever reasons, is not the concern of the people of Kisumu or anybody else. We will dig and find why it is taking so long and why the Government is clinging to this. If it is a problem with the contractor, that should be sorted out. The more we continue clinging to this property without handing it over to the LBDA, the more it is deteriorating. If you put up a building and leave it for several years without utilizing it, definitely, it starts deteriorating. We want to bring an end to this. I want to thank my Senator for bringing the matter again to be discussed so that we can find a way forward. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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