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    "id": 1124810,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cherargei",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Cherarkey K Samson",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it would be easy to track some of these recommendations and implementation. However, the silver lining on this report only is that they have become specific. They were bold enough. That is what we want to agree. I had my colleague from Migori County saying that a presidential directive is as good as the law. I know the President or his handlers are watching this. The 21 days were given last year for this investigation in the KEMSA heist and COVID-19 billionaires’ scandal to be investigated. It is more than a year. No one have been arrested. No one is telling us whether the file is with Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) or ODPP or whether the DCI has completed the file in the issue of investigation of KEMSA. We have seen a number of reports flying here and there but there was a presidential directive of 21 days. It is unfortunate that a presidential directive can be treated the same way as a directive of Nyumba Kumi . It is undermining the Office of the President. It is undermining the holder of that office. If you cannot respect a presidential directive, then it means this county is not functional. I have insisted before that unless the President is now a lame duck. If he gives a directive and no one implements it then what are we, even if we talk here at the Senate until Jesus comes back and we cannot implement the presidential directive of 21 days that was given? The President must be honest with the nation. He must tell the nation. Although we are aware in the past he said when he was abroad that he will come and address the issue of the Pandora Papers but it has never been addressed. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the question we want to remind him is that he gave us 21 days. It behoves all of us. There was a time he was being interviewed by some media houses and he said he would give the nation the contract between China on the issue of the loan and Mombasa Port. It has never been done. I think there are jokers within Government that whenever President Uhuru Kenyatta directs something, they take it lightly. If they were serious about this presidential directive, several people would be in. However, let me make the following comments. We hope when the hustler nation, God willing, takes over the reins of power in this republic, a presidential directive will be taken with the seriousness it deserves. I hope and pray that if Hon. William Ruto becomes the fifth president, we will have a functional government. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there are two things. I have seen recommendation number one and the chairperson my good friend Sen. (Dr.) Mbito is here. I agree that the board and the management of Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA), they should be in all of them. This is because under management of companies, there is what we call corporate governance. The work of KEMSA board was to oversight the management and running of affairs. So, they did fail in their oversight. It is good Sen. Olekina is here. I was present when we cross-examined the chairperson of the KEMSA board, the former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr. Jonah Manjari and Sen. Kembi Gitura. Then this Government decided to reward him with the chairmanship of Communication Authority of Kenya (CAK). Does this mean that in this country the more you are corrupt the more you are rewarded? The same chairperson who presided over the allegations of COVID-19 within"
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