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    "id": 1243377,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Machogu",
    "speaker_title": "The Cabinet Secretary for Education",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 13458,
        "legal_name": "Ezekiel Machogu Ombaki",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to make it clear to all the principals in the country that they or anybody working within a school is not supposed to be a supplier. This is conflict of interest. In such cases, there will be misuse of public funds. Not only for Mukumu Girls, but any public secondary schools. Let me know once you find a specific case. I will investigate and take necessary disciplinary action. We shall not only be removing that principal from that school, but also investigate to see whether public funds were embezzled in the process. I have met a number of principals and all principals of national schools. I have also had a meeting with principals in various parts of the country. That was one of the items of agenda we discussed. I have had a meeting with all my county directors. We normally have virtual meetings. One of the emphasis we make is on this. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in case the hon. Member has empirical evidence that there was anything like this, I would like to see it so that I am able to investigate further. If we find that it was the principal supplying food, then we will take action. We took up from there and the principal is due to retire in December. We gave her some soft landing in the Regional Director’s Office for the time being as we do further investigation because she has six months to retire. Secondly, I have been getting two reports in a week from the multi-agency team. Among other people that we had in that multi-agency approach were the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) officers. So far, we have not received a report incriminating an individual as culpable for us to pin down on negligence to the level where we would have said that any individual was criminally responsible to warrant being taken to court."
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