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    "id": 1014912,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Orengo",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Minority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aggrey James Orengo",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to congratulate this Committee. It did a wonderful job. If you look at the membership, there are Members of this Senate that I really respect. By some coincidence, nearly just under half of them were lawyers. Therefore, in giving my comments, I want to put that factor in the background. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I must confess that I have never seen a report for a long time in this House of this magnitude. If it is for size, they did a good job. If it is for annexures, they did a good a job. If it is for time spent, they did a very good job. Mr. Speaker, Sir, from the outset, I want to start from where Sen. Murkomen and Sen. M. Kajwang’ ended. If you look at this Report generally it is making recommendations. To whom is it making recommendations? It is to the EACC. What will the EACC do? They cannot prosecute. They will recommend to the office of the DPP). The DPP is not obliged by those recommendations. If the DPP refuses to prosecute, probably, that is the end of the matter. I was beginning to ask myself the question: What can the Senate itself do, or what the Senate itself has not done? I am taken back to memory lane. If you look at the Goldenberg Scandal, it emanated from a legislation that enabled the Government to pay compensation to exporters of gold. There was a legal basis, but it was wrongly used. In this Report, if you look at the public servants who came before the Senate, where did they start when they were giving evidence? They said there was a resolution of the Senate as a basis. That they were doing this on the basis of a Motion which was passed by the Senate. It was Sen. (Dr.) Machage’s Motion. 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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