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    "id": 13526,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Eng. Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have been standing up since this matter started. I have a point which I feel should have come out. When the Prime Minister was giving his explanation, it came out very clearly that the reason we are in this problem is because some staffers at the World Bank leaked out a document which was internal. Last year, I together with Members from Western Province pursued the matter of the Western Kenya Community Driven Flood Mitigation Project and it came out very clearly that the gravity of that project as was released to the media was much more than the reality. It was a consequence of some collaborators within the World Bank trying to hype the project and make the project die. This matter is important because it amounts to the fact that there are people within the World Bank who are being used. It is very clear because you can see how this matter has been hyped. There are people within the World Bank who without the authority of the World Bank leaked an internal document for partisan political interest. It is very important that we are told, as a House, what action the Government has taken against these people. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are approaching an election year and if some workers in the World Bank can be used to raise political temperatures in the country over a matter which can be discussed between the bank and the Government, it is unfortunate. Is it in order? Do we not have a right to be told what action the Government has taken to make sure that the appropriate disciplinary action is taken against these employees, who we understand are Kenyans?"
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