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    "id": 149912,
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    "speaker_name": "Eng. Gumbo",
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        "legal_name": "Nicholas Gumbo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, in my view, the issues involved here are very grave. The Postmaster-General comes from my constituency. The Assistant Minister is very economical with the truth. He refuses to tell the House that the pre-payment contract was signed eight months before Mr. Odhiambo was appointed as the Postmaster-General. He also refuses to tell the House that before the contract was signed, an incompetent Board, purported to conduct a due diligence study which did not identify situational weakness of the project. The Board did not do a business plan and did not even identify the calibre of staff required. He then comes here and says that the Postmaster-General was dismissed because the corporation was losing revenue. I want to read to you the conclusion of the forensic auditors and he has it. It is on page 73. In their conclusion, they had compared the performance of similar companies doing similar business in Kenya which are Money Gramm, Western Union and the Posta Pay. Their conclusion on page 72 says that in the year 2008, Posta pay generated nearly Kshs300 million in profits. This compares to Moneygram which registered a loss of 18 per cent and Western union which only made Kshs18 million. How can he come here and tell us that the Postmaster-General was dismissed because the corporation was losing money?"
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