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    "id": 401418,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kembi-Gitura",
    "speaker_title": "The Deputy Speaker",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "James Kembi Gitura",
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    "content": " I think Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale you are also being unfair to the Chairperson. This is my honest opinion because, at the end of the day, when the Committee finishes its mandate and gives an account and a report, then we shall be able to interrogate the report and see the parameters on which they made certain decisions, like giving out Kshs50,000 or Kshs100,000 or whatever amount of money they decided to give case by case because needs cannot be the same. So, I think even as we sit here in the Senate and interrogate the very important issues that were raised by Sen. Khaniri in seeking the Statement - I dare say that he must get the correct answers - at the end of the day, we must do an audit of that committee and the work it has done. We can only do that at the end of it all. I do not believe that certain issues that are coming from the Floor of the House or from Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale are things that are within the province of the Chairman of the Committee unless Members wish to seek a new Statement from him specific from what Sen. Khaniri had sought. At the end of it all, when the Committee closes and gives a report, you shall be able to say whether money was misappropriated or whether the Committee followed the mandate that it undertook to follow when it formed itself to try and help Kenyans who were in need. Indeed, this was a Kenyan initiative because everybody gave money through M-pesa and all the other avenues to help those people that were either bereaved or hurt in the incident. So, I think we also need to be a little fair to the Committee. But that does not negate the fact that the issues raised by Sen. Khaniri and the other legitimate issues need to be answered to."
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