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    "id": 1034885,
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    "speaker_name": "Kiharu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Ndindi Nyoro",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samson Ndindi Nyoro",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this chance. It is disappointing for me having read the Report of the Departmental Committee on Health. In my opinion, it is full of explanations for small things, verbosity and platitude. I would have preferred more far reaching recommendations. I say this knowing very well what has been happening in our country. As other Members before me have spoken, this is no longer about statistics and academics. It is more about victims and their families that have suffered through this pandemic. Many of us followed through the Committee’s sessions. The anger that we witnessed, the people of Kiharu and I expected harsher recommendations in regard to the vendors and the businesspeople who were involved in the KEMSA billionaires’ saga. It is fair to say that we were on a good trajectory prior to the KEMSA scandal. Many Kenyans were cautious and they were putting on their masks. Afterwards, the Kenyan population started to relax in following the regulations because some of them thought that the COVID-19 pandemic was for minting money. Therefore, the liability of the careless Kenya afterwards goes to the masterminds of KEMSA scandal that we are talking about today. We have talked about the vendors. The Committee has tried to capture some of the companies’ names. However, this country has a tendency of seeing peculiar faces when summonses are called. We need to go further to the beneficiaries who own these companies. Most of the people who attended the Committee’s sessions were proxies of the real owners of the billions that have been stolen. I hope the recommendations for deeper investigations will not just present these faces, but unmask the real beneficiaries of the billions that were stolen from KEMSA. I have read the observations and the recommendations. Going by the recent history of most public officers in senior Government offices, when you are embroiled in such a scandal, the honourable thing to do is to step aside so that credible investigations can be conducted. We have seen some of the people in the management of KEMSA out of office. I want to ask on the Floor of The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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