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    "id": 1010325,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1010325/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Parliament under the able Chairmanship of Hon. Adan Keynan. We had started looking at some of the issues that have been raised in the Committee’s Report, but the term of the last Parliament came to an end before we finalised. There were issues to do with fraud and forgery by the companies that have been named. Therefore, we must ask ourselves: If we are saying that we investigate and recommend to the DPP for action, if in the same circumstances somebody has been found to have flouted the Public Procurement and Disposal Act in terms of even forging documents and fraudulently getting into tender business in this country, are we then saying - if we were to agree with what Hon. T.J. Kajwang’ said - that we cannot take action because the Regulations had not come into force by then? The Public Procurement and Disposal Act allows Government and institutions to debar. The only thing that was lacking is the means within which to debar because the Regulations were not in place then. Therefore, I absolutely find nothing wrong now that we have the Regulations in place. If someone has committed a crime, the law should be followed to the letter and that person should be debarred. Otherwise, we will just be encouraging people that today I can steal your jacket because I know the Penal Code or what is there in law does not stipulate how I should be punished."
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