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    "id": 223612,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will not comment on whether consent is required or not. That is beyond my jurisdiction. However, going to specific areas of the questions raised, the Controller and Auditor-General, in his report, raised, the issue that among the 18 contracts some are ongoing. We cancelled those that had not started. There are those that had been contracted from as early as 1997, 2000 and 2001, and they were ongoing. People had started delivering on the contracts and it was only fair that they be evaluated to establish; whether they had begun, under which circumstances they were negotiated and whether the Kenyan public received value for those contracts. That is the essence of the forensic audit that is going on. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, let me confirm that we advertised the contracts internationally. We had very detailed terms of reference on what was required. We are not just looking at PriceWaterHouseCoopers, or whichever firm, as an audit firm especially in forensic audit to clarify the issues that were there. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the firms have also signed up a duty of care for professionalism in terms of the secrecy which is not exactly what the case will be if these matters were just discussed casually through the committees. 1072 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES May 2, 2007"
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