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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kipchumba",
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        "legal_name": "Joseph Kipchumba Lagat",
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    "content": "If you look at the history of the Attorney-General, it is unfortunate! I am yet to know whether he has won any case! He lost all the cases that came before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). If you look at the reasons that were given to us, the Attorney-General abdicated his responsibility. He was very keen to give a legal opinion to the financiers. But, unfortunately, he failed to assist our own procuring departments to get sound contracts. If you look at the contracts that were signed, the legal opinions and amendments that were given by officers in the Attorney-General's office were not subsequently incorporated into the final document and yet, the Attorney-General's office allowed the procuring Ministry to sign the contract. To that extent, we find out that the Attorney- General has not done his work to the satisfaction of this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when payments were being made, promissory notes worth billions of shillings were given out. In a lease financing agreement, it is prudent to use a Letter of Credit (LC) It should have been the preferred mode of payment. To the extent that promissory notes were given out and the Attorney-General was aware that it was a lease financing--- There was even no performance bond that was given for that particular project! To that extent, we find the Attorney- General either incompetent or did not care about the repercussions of the contract. April 5, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 391 Mr. Speaker, Sir, the legal opinion was meant to satisfy the suppliers that, indeed, the highest legal authority in the land had certified that the people who signed the contracts were bound by the law. I would like hon. Members to understand that, when we were interrogating the witnesses, Mr. Oyula, who was the Financial Secretary at that time, was ordered by our Committee to refund the funds. It took him only two days to bring those promissory notes to the Committee. If, indeed, that company was in London, it would be impossible for somebody to deliver original promissory notes in two days. That pointed to us that, indeed, people working at the Treasury, including Mr. Oyula, himself, were well aware of the principals of Anglo-Leasing."
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