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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, last week, you saw a gentleman who shamelessly told the country that he was paid a cool Ksh400 million because he is smart. Mind you, this gentleman was so smart to be paid Ksh400 million, assuming the rest of Kenyans are stupid. That gentleman at that time… I hope the Public Accounts Committee, the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, and the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Technology will pick this issue up as they consider their reports. At that time, that gentleman was being paid for being smart in advising Telkom as a Telkom provider while serving as the Chair of Safaricom PLC. You know Government has shareholdings in both companies. Therefore, already there was direct conflict of interest. At that time, he was chairing one board while advising a competitor’s board. Then you say he was not smart and yet, he was smart in stealing. Committees of this House must ensure those thieves are brought to book. With those very few remarks, I can see I am inviting very many points of objection or order. I hope they are not in any way to gag me from calling out the thieves and cartels that looted this country dry in the last regime. This is because, as a House, we shall hold the Public Accounts Committee to account and ensure the cartels that looted this country are brought to book. It will not matter whether they were operating from big offices, smart, moving their money from here to Malaysia, Caymans Islands or Pandora Papers. They must answer. So, this Government must not feed cartels. Hon. John Mbadi, you have an onerous responsibility of ensuring the Public Accounts Committee, Auditor-General, and the PKF audit firm… Ensure the Auditor-General provides meaningful oversight over Government agencies and Ministries. With those many remarks, I wish to tell all cartels that have been stealing from the Government in the past and even those intending to steal under this Government that they are on notice and we are watching them. We are watching the Public Accounts Committee and the Public Investments Committees of this House to ensure they do their work without fear, favour and being compromised by the cartels. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker."
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