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    "id": 968742,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/968742/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Pokot South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Pkosing",
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        "legal_name": "Losiakou David Pkosing",
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    "content": "Secondly, one of the reasons why my Committee agreed with the proposals and recommendations from the Ministry and the public is that the national Government… I was sitting here when the National Treasury came to present to the Budget and Appropriations Committee (BAC) during the Supplementary Budget Estimates. The National Treasury declared that the national Government owes Kshs90 billion to the people of Kenya in terms of pending bills. Earlier, the Chairman of BAC was arguing about this matter. This Bill will not have come at a better time than now, the reason being that out of the Kshs90 billion that the national Government owes the people of Kenya, Kshs81 billion is on roads against a budget of Kshs65 billion a year. That means contractors have moved out of the way. If you look at the questions that come before my Committee most of the time, Members are asking about the desertion of roads by contractors. The contractor has demobilised because the Government has not paid them and that triggers interest."
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