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"content": "I will invite you to the annexure. Everything is contained in this Report. It was not taken under oath, so we did not deal with the memorandum because it did not meet the requirements of the Act. We have others that were time barred. They did not conform to the notification given by this Parliament, or the Clerk of the National Assembly. We had others from George Mallowah, Joseph Kinyanju and Charles Akinyi Omanga. We could not deal with these because they were time barred. As you can see, we dealt with the candidate himself and this took us about four hours. This was the longest interview in the history of this country, because we wanted to get the best Secretary to the Cabinet for this country. I want to confirm that the candidate really displayed enthusiasm. He confirmed to us that he can actually be a transformational leader, who will fit into governance in the 21st Century. We also met the Chief Executive of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and the relevant part of the Report is at Item 3.30. This officer had issues with a tender at the Kenya Airports Authority, in relation to which she said that Mr. Kimemia should have actually sacked an officer who was in charge, and who was the CEO. The other issue was suspension of Mr. Thuita Mwangi, who is the PS for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Those were the main issues. If you look at the verbatim report, you will see that these were the concerns by the Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission. I want to cite Item No.5. There was delay because of bureaucracy and bad blood between the then Minister and his PS; this actually led to the delay in implementation of a project that is worth Kshs56 billion. In this Report, there was a sub-committee of the cabinet that actually cleared the implementation of this project, because it was found to be above board, and this subcommittee had very senior officers, including the Attorney- General. One other issue is that of suspending the Permanent Secretary. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs had a court order blocking this suspension. I would like to summarize our findings. Hon. Deputy Speaker, after doing the vetting, calling the nominee again and even having talked to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission officials, and getting all the memoranda these were our findings:"
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