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    "id": 304781,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/304781/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": " Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me at the very outset state that I have no personal interest in this tender now or in the future. My only interest is to ensure Kenyan taxpayers get value for their money. That is not personal. That is what every Kenyan wants. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I just want to state that the tenderers have also lodged an appeal with the Public Procurement Oversight Administrative Review Board (PPOARB), which is a quasi-judicial institution. I will need your guidance in terms of whether we should be responding to this before the determination of that matter in the PPOARB. This is because whatever we say here could be used there, especially with the way the whole of this transaction has been handled. There is information being peddled around and used to support various actions. So, I need your guidance on that. I am prepared to give the Statement any time from Thursday, but subject to clarification as to whether the House should be discussing this matter when it is also being canvassed with the PPOARB for the same reasons. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, let Members disregard what appeared in the media by the obviously some interested and compromised journalists. I can say that without doubt. The issue that we are talking about here is that there is no tender that has been awarded. A tender that has not been awarded cannot, therefore, be cancelled. So, there is no issue of a cancellation of what has not been awarded but I will clarify that within the statement. I would like ask the House and the nation to ignore what obviously"
}