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    "id": 100928,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Saitoti",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 205,
        "legal_name": "George Muthengi Kinuthia Saitoti",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I agree. I will move as quickly as I can. However, on the matter of the SGR, the investigation is a State case by case. In the case of Dr. Romano Kiome, he was suspended after he was adversely mentioned in the forensic audit report of the PricewaterHouseCoopers on the sale and distribution of the SGR. The Report faulted the SGR trustees for their failure to effectively supervise as trustees, the efficient distribution of maize release under the authority of the NCPB who were agents. The SGR trustees comprise of the Permanent Secretaries of the following Ministries; Ministry of State for Special Programmes, Ministry of Agriculture and the Treasury. Dr. Kiome was further faulted in the said Report for failure as the Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture to appropriately advise the Government on the food situation in the country and also failure to effectively supervise the NCPB which falls under his Ministry. Dr. Kiome had earlier been interviewed by the Commissioner on the allegation that he authored a note to the NCPB Managing Director seeking favour on behalf of his friends on the allocation of maize. The investigation was pursuant to the allegation that senior Government officials wrote notes to the NCPB Managing Director seeking to influence the allocation of maize. The Commissioner has revealed the evidence collected in the course of his investigation, including the PriceWaterHouse Report and has found no evidence of criminal culpability against Dr. Kiome. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Commission is, however, in the process of taking action against the trustees for their failure to effectively supervise the distribution of the Strategic Grain Reserve (SGR). What was, therefore, recommended to the Attorney-General was to carry out disciplinary measures. It turned out that the disciplinary action can only be carried out in the Office of the Prime Minister because he is the one who supervises and also by the Head of the Civil Service. It is conceived that some action was taken on those people because they were suspended for four months with half pay. That is what is concerned to have been the disciplinary action. Mr. Mohamed, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of State for Special Programmes, by virtue of being---"
}