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    "id": 1014739,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "And forced Gov. Chepkwony that if he does not sign, he will face the music come 2017. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am speaking to the issues that have been brought before us, that as a House of Parliament, we must make a decision. We must vary this business of referring people back to the EACC and the DCI. You must name public officials. The Attorney-General came before us and gave this Committee, because I took time to watch some of the submissions that were brought. On one day he came and said he never signed this contract. On another day, he said: “I did it but under duress.” He must explain. You were duty-bound as a committee to ask Attorney-General Githu Muigai to tell this House, who is it that forced his hand to sign this particular contract? If you do not expose him, for sure you are making it a joke. CS Mailu, a good gentleman, appeared before this committee. He sat where Sen. Kabaka is seated today and told the committee that a PS told him that those contract documents are State secrets, that for the two or three years that he was Minister for Health he never saw them; yet that PS has not been indicted in this report. Honestly, good people, when you tell us that you want to refer the same people to the EACC and DCI and you make generic, general comments about it, are we not just handing another eating expedition to the officials of the EACC and DCI because we live in Kenya and we know what will happen? If as Parliament we want to be serious with it, the options are before us. Either we have a stay on the decision until we make a decision on how do we enlarge, now that the window for making amendments has been stopped. I do not mind exercising Standing Order No. 58, waiting for another six months as this report is in purgatory, as we draft, one, what to do with these public officials that have been named. General Electric in Boston, the headquarters of this world conglomerate, they need to know that their subsidiary in East Africa involved itself in corrupt practices and when they were called to account before Parliament, they refused. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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