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    "id": 1014798,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. M. Kajwang’",
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        "legal_name": "Moses Otieno Kajwang'",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have no doubt that she applied the same level of diligence and rigour in coming up with this Report. This is the first time that we have had an Ad Hoc Committee that has run for one full year. If you read this Report carefully, you will notice that the Motion to establish the Ad Hoc Committee was carried out in September, 2019, and we are in September, 2020. This Committee has had more than 365 days to come up with a Report. That is the reason they have 365-page Report. They have been doing one page every day for the last one year. This Report is detailed and tells us a lot about what happened. Anyone who wants to understand the chronology of this particular procurement exercise, what went wrong and should not have gone wrong, should be best advised to read the 360 plus pages that the Committee has brought to us. When this matter came up and somewhere in this Report, it is indicated that the inception of this idea came from this House. Sen. (Dr.) Machage, the former Senator for Migori County, brought a Motion to this House compelling the Government to establish a Level 5 hospital in every county and a Level 4 hospital in every sub county. The Ministry of Health used that as justification for some of the actions that were taken. However, our 47 counties are not equal. Indeed, a former Senator, who is currently a Governor, described this exercise as being similar to a husband of many wives buying the same size of dress for the various wives. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you well know that a dress that would fit Senator---"
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