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    "id": 988721,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/988721/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Eng.) Hargura",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Godana Hargura",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like commend the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget for coming up with this Report. I engaged the Chairperson of the Committee when the Clerk of Marsabit County Assembly came to follow on that issue. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, generally, we must have ceilings, which should have been given at the right time. We are not addressing the issue here. We are trying to save money, but we might lose more through litigation, since we have contracts that have been awarded and signed by contractors. Some of them have even done more than 50 per cent of the work, like Marsabit County. We are running away from a situation where we are going to spend more than even the Kshs250 million for the chambers. This is because if a contract was given for Kshs344 million, the contractors will claim that because he was the cause of scaling down. We would rather go case by case. If the contracts were signed before the ceilings came in - the issue is that the Controller of Budget (CoB) is not releasing any money using the Senate resolution. The Senate is trying to run away from that resolution. Since we are the ones who created that situation, let us assess it. Going forward, new contracts should not be signed above the ceiling. But for the existing ones, let us own it up that we cannot allow losses----"
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