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    "id": 435352,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/435352/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, we owe it to the people of Kenya to be factual and accurate so that they do not believe that this House has passed a Bill that is allowing the payment of Anglo Leasing claims. I want to just put it on record that we are correcting a mistake that we made during the Tenth Parliament. The mistake we made then was that there is what we used to call “The External Loans Act”, which we repealed without capturing how this country would access money from the external market using the Public Finance Management Act, as it is today. Therefore, this provision was in the External Loans Act but we left out that bit. So, for hon. Nyamweya to trash the entire Bill on the basis of Clause (3), and portray this House as passing a law that is allowing payment of Anglo Leasing claims is not fair to us. We had made a contribution similar to his on that particular provision. Actually, I have an amendment on that particular clause. So, what he should have done would be to bring an amendment to correct the Bill rather than make a sweeping statement to portray all of us who have contributed to this Bill as approving payments for Anglo Leasing, which we cannot do. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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