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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Abdikadir",
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        "legal_name": "Abdikadir Hussein Mohamed",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will invite hon. Dr. Nuh, who is a Member of the Committee, to look at the evidence that was before the Committee, that was not controverted. The evidence, for example, on page 5 on the joint venture, is not very clear. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at page 1 of the Executive Summary, the Committee was satisfied with hon. Mwiraria’s action, which is a cancellation that was done earlier. Now, if one cancellation is good, the other one cannot be illegal. In other words, two Ministers for Finance cannot take exactly the same action; and one becomes unlawful and the other one lawful. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, secondly, the Cabinet, as I clearly stated, many times said: “Go for joint venture.” Now, when you are going for a joint venture, you cannot have the earlier contract. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thirdly, the action of the Treasury at that point in time was commensurate with the Treasury’s responsibilities and powers at that point in time. There was no Public Procurement Oversight Authority at that point in time. The Treasury’s involvement with the tenders in any Government body was as per the law and not the Treasury interfering with the Central Bank of Kenya. In any event, it is for the Central Bank of Kenya to complain to the Committee and say: “We were being interfered with.” Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for all those reasons, I oppose the Report."
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