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    "id": 1167535,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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        "legal_name": "James Opiyo Wandayi",
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    "content": "lost. We never know as a country how much has exactly been lost but it is a whopping amount of money running into hundreds of billions of shillings, especially with regard to the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) Project. The land acquired for purposes of the SGR has brought about compensations, some of which is fictitious, inflated and erroneous and so on. In a number of cases, there was no valuation. They were just handing out cash. The Committee was treated to a circus valuation reports were unsigned. As a lawyer, you know that such a report cannot pass. In reality, it is inadmissible even before a committee of Parliament. So, we may never know how much money has really been lost through this fictitious compensation scheme. In fact, it reminds me of the Goldenberg Scandal. Luckily, those avenues are being sealed by the current administration of the NLC. Therefore, on account of this un-procedural and irregular land compensation scheme, we have recommended very far reaching recommendations. We have recommended that the former Chairman of the NLC, Professor Mohamed Swazuri; the former CEO of the NLC, Mr. Aziz Chavangi; and the former Director of Valuation, Madam Salome Munubi, be permanently barred from holding public office in the Republic of Kenya. That should, therefore, serve as an example to all other public and state officers who would in future be entrusted to manage public resources to never ever try to treat public resources in the casual manner in which these three officers treated public resources under their care. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I can go on and on but the beauty of it is that all this is documented in our Report. Our Report is over 1,000 pages. I urge my colleagues to take their time and go through it with a toothcomb and establish for themselves what the Committee has come up with in terms of findings or observations and eventually recommendations. Finally, it is about public expectations. I know the public would want to see us hanging people. We cannot do that because we have no powers to hang anyone. That has to go through a proper judicial process. The media should also bear with us because I have seen in the last two days the media stations speculating why we are not taking tough measures against people. We are a Committee created by the rules of the House. Under Standing Order No.205 of the National Assembly, we can only deal with what is documented in the Report of the Auditor-General. We cannot overstep or go beyond our mandate. Therefore, if what has been raised by the Auditor- General is brought before us and we examine it in the manner it is raised, we do not have any further mandate to dig any further beyond what we have recommended. Some of the things that the media are asking for can best be dealt with by the Departmental Committees of this House. Otherwise, as PAC, we remain proud. Even as the House goes on the sine die recess that we anticipate next week, we go home with our heads raised high as Members of PAC of the 12th Parliament. With those very many remarks, I wish to move and Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those very many remarks, I beg to move and ask my colleague, Hon. (Prof.) Jacqueline Oduol, to second."
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