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    "id": 579136,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "that Report is not to start dragging the office in the mud as we have been doing, least of all, the institution of Parliament where the Auditor-General reports to. This report will be interrogated both by the Public Accounts Committee and Parliament as a whole. Therefore, any attempt to throw mud at this important office can only make our country look very bad in the eyes of the international community. It becomes even worse when negative comments demeaning the Office of the Auditor-General by people who at the forefront are parliamentarians who are the ones who are supposed to interrogate that report and confirm to the people of Kenya. This is because in so far as accountability and oversight is concerned and looking at how our money is being spent both Parliament and the Auditor- General’s Report play on the same side of the league. That is to confirm to the people of Kenya that their money has been used well. As I conclude, I want to comment on the importation of sugar from Uganda to this country. This is a matter that has taken the attention of the country. I am an engineer by training and I like to look at numbers in everything that I see. We are being told that our sugar requirement is about 800,000 tonnes per capita. That means every Kenyan uses about 20 kilograms of sugar per year and yet Uganda with a population of 35 million uses 320,000 metric tonnes of sugar per year. Someone has to tell us why Ugandans somehow use just half the amount of sugar that the people of Kenya supposedly use. This is because without us being told that then the devil definitely will be in the detail. Ugandans cannot be using nine Kilograms of sugar per person per year when Kenyans supposedly are using 20 kilograms of sugar per person per year unless we have become sugar lickers. That mathematics simply does not add up. With those remarks, I beg to support."
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