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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion- THAT, aware that the on 19th September, 2019, the Senate resolved to establish a select Committee comprising nine Senators to investigate and establish the facts surrounding the leasing of the Medical Equipment, in the now 119 beneficiary hospitals country wide. APPRECIATING, that the initial mandate of the Select Committee lapsed on 5th October, 2019, and extensions of the same approved by the Senate on 12th November, 2019, on 4th March, 2020, and on 14th July, 2020, respectively; REGRETING, that due new evidence arising from the hearings revealed important gaps that need to be addressed in the inquiry, and further owing to the sheer scale and magnitude of the investigations, and the amount of documentation involved; NOW THEREFORE, the Senate resolves to renew the mandate of the Committee by a further period of 34 days to enable the Ad hoc Committee to conclude its work and table its report in the Senate on or before 8th September, 2020. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a request to the House to expand the time of the Committee. I would like to inform the Senate that all the hearings have been concluded and a raw draft of the report is nearly concluded. Last week, the Speaker approved our retreat to Naivasha and we worked round the clock for four days. We are aware that all things being equal, the House is to take a recess for about a month at the end of the sitting today. In my humble view, the Ad Hoc Committee on MES has done a sterling job in trying to unearth a difficult situation where each of our counties has been paying huge sums of money towards a suspect scheme. We want as the Committee to bring to this House a report that is deep, well researched, factual and brings to a conclusive and definitive end to the saga of leasing medical equipment. I do not want to go into the details of our draft report, but Members may recall that some of our hearings have been aired live in several national televisions and we thank the media for that. We have received positive response from the public. Therefore, I urge the House to extend the time for us. If we were not going on recess, we would have brought the report before the House in the next 10 days or less. I would also like to confirm to the House that the membership of the Committee of nine Members has been extremely engaged and co-operative. In most of our sittings, we have been having 100 per cent turn out of Members asking very inquisitorial questions. We had an online Zoom meeting last week with the former CS in the Ministry of Health, Amb. (Dr) Mailu, who is currently in Geneva. We also had a meeting with the former Attorney-General and other persons of interest. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I urge the House to give the Ad Hoc Committee this extension so that we can bring the report at the opening of the House after the recess. I promise that"
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