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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dagoretti South, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Kiarie",
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        "legal_name": "John Kiarie Waweru",
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    "content": "Let me discuss the issue of the day. This Report is very damning. The Chairman decried what he knew would happen after the tabling of the Report. First, we know that Kenyans are baying for blood. They want to see action and heads rolling. However, the Chairman has referred us back to the law. He told us what powers Parliament has through PAC. It has already done what it needs to do. The tabling of this Report is actually a completion of a phase of the work that needs to be done for the issues that have been raised in the Report. Beyond that, the only thing that is left for the Committee that is in its power is to go to town with this Report. If we wait for the other wheels of justice to turn, they do it so slowly that by the time we highlight the issues in this Report, there will be already another mega scandal that will have occupied the heads of Kenyans and all the media space. It is an opportune moment for this Committee. The Chairman of a Committee is its spokesman. Even with the heavy duty of campaigning in his constituency, this would be a good time for this Committee to go on a road show and to the media houses. In the same way we get invited to media houses to do politics, we can also go there and give a report of what we have done in this Parliament. This is one of those reports that should be out there to showcase the work that Parliament does. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Chairman did whet our appetite to dig into that report and we will with a tooth comb. That way, we will pick up issues that were raised in the report. The Chair also highlighted two grave issues that he prosecuted and I shall not go back to that. The point I wanted to make is that this country is absolutely able to produce reports. We are talented and gifted in churning out reports. The action to be taken after a report has been written is the question. I would imagine that the in-tray of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the 13th Parliament is already full. The 13th Parliament will have to open up a Pandora’s Box. The 13th Parliament will have a PAC that will have to look into issues such as the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) where billions of shillings were committed to do something that did not require a change of our Constitution. That matter has been ruled so by three esteemed courts. They have ruled that we did not require to go the way that we did with the BBI. The 13th Parliament PAC will have to open up a Pandora’s Box called Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA). As we speak today, it is in public domain that there are individuals The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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