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    "id": 1010450,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Odhiambo-Mabona",
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        "legal_name": "Millie Grace Akoth Odhiambo Mabona",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. At the outset, yesterday we saw a man praying saying that Suleiman is the one who killed Goliath with one stone and Goliath fell “pungulu.” As Parliament, if we are not careful in the way we deal with issues, we will be like those bishops who do not even understand the Bible – who actually think that somebody called Suleiman killed Goliath. The reason I am saying that is because I have actually had an opportunity to sit through even the other time when this Report came and we had to adjourn the House because of lack of Quorum. Sometimes, and because I have been in this House for long, it pricked my interest that, sometimes, when we want to call quorum, we do it when we think we do not want to pass... I got an opportunity to look at this Report and I support the Committee and the amended Report on its consideration of the Special Audit Report on procurement of the pre-export verification of conformity to standard services for used motor vehicles, mobile equipment and used spare parts by KEBS. If you look at the mandate of PIC in general, it is to ensure probity, efficiency and effectiveness in the use of public funds. What they were trying to do with this Special Audit was to test the veracity of the findings of the Special Audit. Some of the things that they picked up were the issue of conflict of interest, except that at some point, I was concerned about some of the issues on privacy. They seemed to put privacy above the issue of conflict of interest. For me, privacy stops where you disabuse the Constitution and the law. You cannot put your privacy 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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