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    "id": 1523898,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Sifuna",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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    "content": "There are unconscionable contract terms and we have to speak about these issues without appearing like we are witch-hunting or anything. I want to assure the President that Sen. Sifuna’s money is also defined as public money because I am making a contribution. We are all making a contribution. If the system operator is getting money from there, then it means that the Kshs104 billion that we are using to procure this system is actually public money. The Auditor-General made a suggestion to the House. Unfortunately, I am no longer a Member of the Senate Business Committee but her suggestion is something that will be helpful to all of us, as a House. She said the she needs to be allowed to also speak to Parliament in what she called a State of Accountability Address. We let her appear before this House and tell us the state of accountability in the country. The address will cut across all the issues such as matters that are devolved and our individual counties. There are problems all over the place. She tried to run away, but we tried to tell her that the Audit Act gives her powers to make recommendations that bind the hands of other institutions in the accountability ecosystem. According to her, after she has said that there were four material breaches of the law in the procurement of the system for SHA, it is the responsibility of Parliament to make recommendations. However, the Audit Act also asks her to make recommendations. There are things that she can do now that they say that Parliament is the weak link in the accountability ecosystem, that we can be compromised and that her recommendations never see the light of the day. She can tie Parliament’s hands by saying that in these four breaches of the law in procurement of this system, the following officers at SHA, the principal secretaries and the following cabinet secretaries are responsible and should be held to account. If we, as a House, want to change her recommendations, then we will be the ones to explain to the public why we are letting thieves go. I thank you."
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