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    "id": 1021319,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for that opportunity. I want to support that amendment that it is important that when we are undertaking these kinds of exercises, when the intentions are good like the ones we have for the Committee, it is important not to open room for abuse. When you say that you want to get all the work redone, you have created a highway for those in the public service to again loot and do all the wrong things that they have done. However, in supporting this amendment, I think it would be more useful - and I said it earlier when we were discussing the Public Investments Committee (PIC) Report - that committees would help us in a big way if, for example, they were to mention the specific officers who have caused this kind of turmoil to Kenyans. Why is it that we are reassessing? Who are the specific individuals? When we talk about institutions, we are like again going out there to cover up and to become part of the cover up. I am not saying that we have, but I am just suggesting the way we should do things in the future. That way, Parliament becomes efficient and members of the public become fearful including the members of the public service, of any exercise being done by the parliamentary committees. However, when we come with a blanket condemnation, we have this institution and… Every institution has a human face. The law requires that if you have been mentioned adversely in any report that has been tabled and accepted by Parliament, then there are places, advantages, privileges or opportunities that cannot be accorded to you going forward. That alone will make it necessary for any person that has this kind of responsibility not embarrassing us. I look at the dams and I am happy that Pesi Dam, Keja Dam and Malewa Dam are not part of this exercise. However, them not being part of it does not make us any happier in Nyandarua because again we seem to have been left out of the loop. However, it is good that they have not been mentioned adversely. However, it is important as Members of Parliament and as parliamentary committees, that we move that extra. Let us be courageous enough to carry names of individuals misusing public resources into the reports because that is the only way we can exercise proper oversight. Otherwise, our reports will continue looking like daily newspapers that you look at in the morning and in the evening you are done away with."
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