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    "id": 240467,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kirwa",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Agriculture",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Kipruto Rono Kirwa",
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    "content": " Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support the amendment and make the following contribution. First of all, the Order Paper was erroneously structured in the sense that Order No.10, Motion, reads as follows:- THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Public Investments Committee on the Kenya Sugar Board - Loss on Export and Import of Raw Sugar, pursuant to Legal Notice No.2 of 2006, laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, 29th June, 2006. I say so because it sends the erroneous implication that the loss of Kshs54 million was occasioned by the said Legal Notice No.2 of 2006, when the situation is different. This loss of Kshs54 million took place in 2001, two years before I took over the Ministry. That is the real essence of the audit query that my colleagues were pursuing, and then they strenuously decided to move into areas not within their purview. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, my colleague has tried this afternoon to make us believe that Standing Order No.148 gives them that particular mandate. However, he has selectively refused to read the second section of the Standing Order No.148. It says:- \"provided that the Public Investments Committee shall not examine any of the following, namely, matters of major Government policy as distinct from business or commercial functions of the public investment.\" In my understanding, the Kenya Sugar Board (KSB) is not supposed to do any business because it is a regulator. I made that clear to the hon. Members of the PIC. I told them I stood my ground, and I was to seek legal advice from the Attorney-General whether I consulted properly or not. The Attorney-General later wrote to me, and a copy was given to the PIC. That copy is available, indicating that I made proper consultations with the Board. There is nowhere in the law that consultations must be done in the order Mr. Muturi has just told us this afternoon."
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