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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojaamong",
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        "legal_name": "Sospeter Odeke Ojaamongson",
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    "content": "And that is the very man they were trying to propel to the position of Leader of the Official Opposition! Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the man undertook very imaginary renovations of the KICC. If I may quote the figures involved, the Ministry's allocation for renovation of the KICC in the year 1998/99 was K£167,863. However, the Appropriation Account for Vote R09, which was the Ministry's Vote, as at 30th June, 1999, showed an expenditure of K£1,249,974 incurred against this Item. You can imagine that magnitude of variation against the approved estimate of K£167,863. There was an over-expenditure of close to K£1,082,111. Was any renovation undertaken at the KICC? If you ever went there for yourself, you must have noted that the lifts were never renovated until recently, when Mr. Tuju took over the management of that building, but look at the colossal amount of money that the \"total man\" took away from the Government! That is the money he used to transport people to Mombasa. That is very unfair. There are recommendations by the Public Accounts Committee to the Government to take action. We have our colleagues here who were heading those Ministries. Why is the Government taking so long to take action against them? The Kenyatta International Conference Centre (KICC) has now reverted back to being a Government facility. Why can the Government not surcharge the Ministers, Permanent Secretaries and all those people who were involved in the plunder of all the funds that the KICC should have generated? There were so many Ministries 4068 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES November 29, 2006 which were housed at the KICC being allocated money and yet no renovations were being done. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in our Report again, we came face to face with the Office of the President and, very fortunately, hon. Wamwere was a victim in this case. There was an over-expenditure of over Kshs500 million. When we grilled the Accounting Officer on why there was an over-expenditure on this vote, he was very reluctant to give us an answer because hon. Wamwere was a Member of the Committee. But with further probing, he accepted to reveal why there was an over-expenditure. He said that during that year, the Government had to mobilize resources in order to go and counter hon. Wamwere, who was invading Kenya from Uganda with his army. I am imagining that Kshs500 million was set aside to counter hon. Wamwere, who might just have gone to buy bananas at the border of Uganda."
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