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    "id": 721759,
    "url": "http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/721759/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
        "slug": "adan-keynan"
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    "content": "must be the vey individuals. Eventually, even there, the NSSF did not get its way. Therefore, all the plots were sold as unserviced plots subject to the approval of the physical development plan by the Nairobi City Council. Due to the unplanned manner in which this piece of land was subdivided, it was surveyed, planned and the NSSF engaged the services of one company called Geo-Info Surveys Limited, which submitted the development plans of the Nairobi City Council and obtained conditional approval on behalf of the Fund in 2008. The NSSF also engaged the services of a land surveyor, Ms Supplants Limited in September 2010. Sadly, a key person who was a director in that company died and things changed again. They got another company called the Multiscope Consulting. In all this, the common denominator is that there was no value for money. If you look at the contractual details between the NSSF and all these other players, everything was tailor-made to meet certain interests. Those certain interests were just to meet the greed of the politically correct individuals who have milked and destroyed the image and the investment of the NSSF. Again, tenders were opened. Eventually, after the technical evaluation, a company by the name China Jiangxi International Kenya Limited was given the contract at a cost of Kshs500,053,000. This is the gist of the matter. After the tender was awarded, we made a report. We instructed the management of the NSSF that we will never allow the use of a single penny belonging to the taxpayer. We told them, “If you want to develop this, you have given him a legal avenue. You have given him an organised platform. Let the individual plot owners pay for the development of their projects.” This is one thing that tied the hands of the NSSF. We told them not to spend a penny belonging to the taxpayer. If they wanted to develop the plots on the other party’s behalf, they should get money from the plot owners. Let them contribute through the NSSF and once they had the money, the contractor should develop. That is one thing that has tied their hand. It is not moving. Initially, the issue was to use the taxpayer’s money, the pensioner’s money, develop it and then give them at a throw away price. Look at the history. This is because of the decision that we made. This is one thing that really made me proud of the group that I head. We made an instant decision and told them not to do it. We told them that if they did it, it would be abuse of office. To date, that project is not moving. The alternative would have been we keep quiet, they use the taxpayers’ money and that eventually it becomes a ghost project. I can say that, today, because of that development and the Report we made---"
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