{"id":1397849,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1397849/?format=json","text_counter":212,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Ababu Namwamba","speaker_title":"The Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports","speaker":null,"content":" Hon. Speaker, I confirm to this House that there are no favoured contractors. I have no personal knowledge of this contractor. When he was hired in January 2017, I was an Hon. Member of this House. I used to sit in this House at that time. I was not on the scene when he was being engaged. The current Director-General of Sports Kenya, the mother agency responsible, was not even hired then. The contractor was picked by a different Cabinet Secretary and Director-General. There is absolutely no relationship between this contractor and any of us in the leadership of this Ministry."}