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    "id": 1216872,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": " There is a difference between cheering and shouting. I was speaking about Ksh6.1 billion, and I know that he knows what I am speaking about. Regarding the payment to Helios Investment Partners in the apparent acquisition of Telkom Kenya's shareholding, Hon. K.J., as the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation, will tell you that the legal status of Telkom Kenya's ownership is unclear. Yet, the Kenyan Government spent a whopping Ksh6.1 billion to acquire Telkom Kenya's shares. I have no problem, and I have indicated this afternoon to Hon. John Mbadi that I will be appearing before his Committee with evidence of how the Ksh6.1 billion paid out on account of acquisition of Telkom Kenya, ended up in accounts in Malaysia and ended up getting back to accounts of individuals in this country and in the Cayman Islands. This was blatant looting of public resources on the verge of an election. What will shock the country today is that the payment was processed two days after the elections of the 8th August 2022. When the rest of the country was counting votes, there are people in the former regime who were counting billions hitting their accounts here and in the Cayman Islands. These things must come to light, because the same characters are the ones who are speaking about the high cost of living today and yet yesterday, they were looting this country dry. Today, they are out there inciting Kenyans and telling them that the cost of living has gone up. It is you who took the cost of living high. It is your blatant looting of our country that has driven our economy to where it is, and we must speak about these things without fear or favour. We told them then and we will continue to tell them today. Hon. Speaker, the Leader of the Minority Party pointed out issues under Article 223 that have also been paid by this nascent regime, as he called it. This regime has made payments out of the Ksh120 billion under Article 223, but look at what has been paid. It is Ksh6 billion. I heard the Leader of the Minority Party say that he has not seen the recruitment of teachers. You are aware that over 30,000 teachers have been recruited. The highest number of teachers to be recruited at ago in the history of pre-independence and post-independence Kenya have been recruited under the Kenya-Kwanza Administration. Those who were there before did not allocate Ksh6 billion to recruit teachers and yet, they were the initiators of the junior secondary school and CBC Programme. They did not see the reason and sense to allocate resources to recruit teachers and provide capitation for junior secondary schools."
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