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    "id": 1277807,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tigania West, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Dr) John K. Mutunga",
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    "content": "tallied perfectly. The amount requested to be paid did not change. It was static. The membership of this association did not change. We see value for money in terms of this consideration. On the other hand, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development owes the National Treasury Ksh4 billion in terms of reimbursable money. Therefore, as a House, we need to clear the Ministry to fully reimburse the National Treasury. In conclusion, I would like to move that this House adopts this Report and that the Grain Millers Owners Association are paid their dues, which is about Ksh500 million, and that the Ministry takes up this issue. We also hasten to add that further investigations are ongoing. The Committee has met twice on this issue and we will still meet next week to look at more reports and submissions to be able to clearly tell what was lost, how much it was and who should be charged. Anything that is outstanding that may come from this association that we cleared may not be impactful. It may be negligible. The focus of inquiry is actually what was paid to the Cereal Millers Association and who else was paid and was not a member of the Cereal Millers Association and Grain Millers Owners Association. The inquiry will also seek to know if they had contracts and whether the contracts will be availed to us and if they have variations. That is what the Committee is belabouring to do. The communication concerning this provision will clearly tell that even if we have said that we clear these associations to be paid, if we find anything that indicates that the process was unclean, we will call upon this House to make the necessary considerations in the final report."
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