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"content": "include: Who is this company called Strabag? Who is Nairobi Motorways, as we find in this big book? When was Nairobi Motorways registered? We would like to know who owns the Nairobi Motorways Company. It is important for this House to proceed with the full knowledge of who are the directors and the shareholders of these companies. The final question that this House would have liked answered, and I am sure, in his contribution the Minister will respond to this question, is: Are we satisfied that the Nairobi Motorways Company, which is now in this big book that a few Members are yet to read, is suitably qualified as required by Section 4A of the Public Toll Act, Cap.407? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, look at what they did. Just give me a minute and you will see what they did in attempting to make us a rubber stamp. They were attempting to bring this book under Article 14, notices. They were attempting to have us pass this voluminous book without giving us an opportunity to realize that on the addresses, 14.2 is Strabag, and the only thing that you know about Strabag is that it is a company on a street called Strabe Nine A 1220 in Vienna, Australia. The area where you are supposed to be told who the directors are, they have written there âMrâ. and left it blank. In the area of email, they have written there âemailâ and left it blank. The area of facts, they have written there âfactsâ and left it blank. This was an attempt to use Parliament as a rubber stamp. Be a gentleman and apologize for this, so that we can move forward. We do not want to hold the country back. Also, Strabag, which is a fairly well known international company, has gone into partnership to create Nairobi Motorways with a company called âHousing and Construction Company Limitedâ. There is nothing you know about this company. The only thing they have written here is that it is a company from Israel, which is registered at a street called Three Sharlam Street. Hon. Members, you must remember that during the last Parliament, when hon. Kenyatta was the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, and he tried to follow some of the Anglo Leasing fellows, he found that it was just some address in Liverpool. When the Members went there, they found an old woman next to the door at the address they were talking about. We want to avoid this kind of thing. The other thing which speaks volumes about the Grand Coalition Government is that actually, the Permanent Secretary, Mr. Kamau, did the right thing. He presented this document from Strabag to the office of the Attorney-General, and the Attorney-General purported to go through it. Mr. Wanjuki Muchemi, the Solicitor-General, wrote a letter--- Just to read out what he told the Permanent Secretary, he said: âWe have studied your clarification and are satisfied with the responses. In view of the clarification, we find the contract to be in order from a legal stand point viewâ. How could the Solicitor-General say that this agreement was legal, when, in the first place, the questions that I have asked were begging? It should have been for the Solicitor-General to tell the Permanent Secretary: âPlease, do not go to Parliament with these begging questions because Parliament is going to spot themâ. It leaves a very big question mark on the head of the Solicitor-General. One of these days, when Parliament will become angry, it might move substantially against the Solicitor-General and the Attorney-General of Kenya. Maybe, we do not want to waste too much time on the Attorney-General, because his fate is almost sealed."
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