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    "id": 318268,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Finance",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, having listened to the contributions by hon. Members, I would have been persuaded to endorse the route of forgiving them for they know not what they are doing and forgive hon. Khalwale, but this is not the first time the hon. Member has made such allegations. The House will recall that when the PAC went to Mombasa to write its Report on this matter, as the Chairman, he called the media and said that a Member of Parliament had been sent to them with Kshs10 million but that Member had given them only Kshs1 million and retained the Kshs9 million and, therefore, the Committee could not proceed with its work until they were told what happened to the Kshs9 million. Dr. Khalwale repeated the same allegation yesterday and, further, alleged that I made Kshs1.8 billion from this “deal”; and that I gave Kshs200 million to Members of Parliament and retained Kshs1.6 billion. So, everyone is asking me for part of the Kshs1.6 billion. Hon. Dalmas Otieno put it simplistically on the Floor of this House that you cannot make money from an academically computed loss. Therefore, I want to confirm to Kenyans that there was no loss incurred. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as you preside over this matter, you owe this House the duty of calling upon the Auditor-General to re-confirm his Report, which was never tabled in this House, and which was never submitted to Treasury, so that Treasury could comment on it. It was submitted directly to the Chairman of the PAC. It was solicited by the Chairman of the PAC to support his"
}