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    "id": 1014856,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the interest of time, I want to start by congratulating the team that was led by Sen. Fatuma Dullo, Sen. Wetangula and others for the work they did and for the period of time they did it. I had the privilege to sit in the Senate Business Committee when we established this ad hoc Committee. The intention was to get to the bottom of the many questions that were coming out of this issue of MES. I must admit that I have read the Report. It is a very long one. I spent a lot of time over the weekend reading it. Many of the provisions, especially related to the Inter- Governmental Relations Act and the implementation of Article 187 and the fact that county governments were not involved in the original inception of this project and that they were forced to sign memoranda. I need to admit like Sen. Cherargei said, those of us who are in Jubilee, especially on this side, Sen. Wamatangi, myself and Sen. Cheruiyot and indeed all of us in this House, cannot escape blame. This is because at that point in time when many of our counties did not want to sign this MES, some of us went and forced them and told them they must sign; and that they were anti the people and so forth. I must also admit that most of these contracts were signed in State House. We must understand the circumstances under which the governors operated. This Report indicts 46 governors out of 47. It indicts about four Ministries, including the Attorney-General. It indicts National Treasury, Ministry of Health and others. I have a lot of sympathy for the work Sen. Dullo and team have done. However, I do not think the proposals they are giving will give us solutions. I may be wrong, but punitive measures alone cannot solve such a mega project, where first it is an ongoing project. 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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