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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Dullo",
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        "legal_name": "Dullo Fatuma Adan",
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    "content": "That is okay. I might take less than that. Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me take this House through memory lane as far as the Managed Equipment Scheme (MES) is concerned. When the MES issue came up, it was first subjected to the Committee of the Whole. I remember very well that, that Committee was chaired by none other than Sen. Murkomen. That did not take even a week for them to come up with anything. Number two, the same MES issue was subjected to the Committee on Health. It did not go anywhere. It is this House that decided to give this work to the Committee that came up with this Report. Immediately this Report came up, most Senators in this House were saying that this is the best Report that Senate has ever had. Unfortunately, two weeks down the line, the same individuals who said that this is the best Report that the Senate has ever had are the ones who are saying this is rubbish, this is fake, the committee did nothing. It is really wrong for Members to be hypocritical. Secondly, it is actually demoralizing to the Members who have put their energy, their strength into this Report. The work of this Committee really touched each and every nerve of MES from day one to the current position. If it is an issue of the recommendation, we had all the reasons. We sat as a Committee, went through the Report, went through the investigation, went through the observations and findings and that is the recommendation we came up with. The best reason Members are giving here to shoot down the Report, is simply that the recommendations are not biting. If I look at some of the issues raised by individuals, where people are bringing amendments concerning particular individuals and companies, faulting the whole Report, clearly I will say that is conflict of interest. This is because you did not sit in that Committee to really understand the nitty gritty; the issues brought before the Committee. If I may give an example of IKM. I thank Sen. Sakaja for having brought up the issue of the so-called harambee by the former Attorney-General, Githu Muigai. IKM were actually brought on board much earlier even before they got the approval from the former Attorney-General and that was illegal in itself. IKM is the one that was recruited to guide the legal process, to make sure that MES went as far as the law is concerned. Unfortunately, there were so many violations of legislation. There are so many gaps as far as MES is concerned. There are so many problems as far as letters of support were concerned. Here, some of our colleagues---"
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