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    "speaker_name": "Alego Usonga, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Samuel Atandi",
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    "content": "I also want to add that conflict of interest happens in many instances. For instance, a public officer may own a business that trades with the Government. There are public officers who own hotels. If you own a hotel as a public officer and you send Government officers for a meeting there, that is public interest. This is notorious even here. There are specific hotels where we go for seminars. If Parliament is going to Mombasa, you find that they are only going to one hotel. I have been informed that the hotel has a relationship with senior public officers. We need to look at this thing and say it as it is. Public officers who are in business must desist from using those opportunities to do business with the Government. I also want to give an example to show you that there are benefits for being in public service. There are Government Cabinet Secretaries who were recently buying suits along River Road but I recently met them buying suits with me in Milan. After using those offices to enrich themselves, they are now even dressing in designer suits – something which they could not do before they joined those offices. The truth of the matter is that we must allow this law to be implemented. I was joking that this law is good, but it could be bad for my friends on the left side of the House. On the right side of the House, we really have nothing. Tumezoea ."
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