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    "id": 460789,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Abongotum",
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        "legal_name": "Asman Abongutum Kamama",
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    "content": "in this country since the British rule. Somebody called Engineer Priston commissioned a railway around 1900 or over 100 years ago. So, a company that has assisted Kenyans and that has been there for over 100 years has been reduced to a shell by almost the same cartels. Kenya Oil Refinery is also a shell, as we speak. So, I want to say with a lot of respect that people who are mentioned and who are my friends need clearance from that respected body called the EACC. So many committees were involved in this. There is the Inter-ministerial Tender Committee; the Technical Evaluation Tender Committee; arbitrators and even the courts were involved. I have a lot of respect for the head of the current Judiciary but despite what we did to actually vet quite a number of our judges we still have some of them who are still living in the past. So, even these rulings that were made must be subjected to some investigation to clear them. This is despite the fact that there are problems in the JSC. Hon. Speaker, I want to tell the House that let us save the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB). Let us not kill it because those of us who are in arid areas actually depend on it. If you kill it then you are killing the entire pastoral people. As you know, we have farmers who grow maize but cannot trade with NCPB. The normal operation usually is that people grow their maize, take it to NCPB and then wait for money. Very many places especially in the Rift Valley are suffering. Farmers in Rift Valley are suffering because some people have actually decided to kill the NCPB. They cannot even buy a bench. When they decide to buy a bench, these people are there to collect the same bench. I mean, really we must do something about this. So, hon. Speaker, with those few remarks, I want us to support and take it the full hog until action is taken against those who want to kill the NCPB in this country."
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