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    "id": 461255,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. A.B. Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, I want to set the record straight. This grand corruption took place a few years after former President Moi left office. Hon. Members can remember that throughout Moi’s tenure, Kenyans alleged that his Government was corrupt. However, we can see that three years after he retired, the axis of corruption regrouped under the NARC Administration. Instead of reforming this country, the new administration then went ahead and came up with fictitious companies. The names changed from O. Pattni to Jacob Juma. There is no difference today. Therefore, I want to use the privilege of this House and say that I am happy that this Committee has brought a recommendation to the effect that Jacob Juma and company, as well as their companies, should never do business with the Government. That is the route to go. In the past, people would oversupply hot air to the Government of Kenya. It is very sad. The genesis of this scum were people of Northern Kenya, whom I happen to represent in one of the constituencies. Fictitious drought was created. It was said that people of Northern Kenya were suffering from drought, and that they needed relief supplies of maize. On that premise, a need assessment was done for some people to cash on. So, people who were dying because of drought were used as guinea-pigs, so that Jacob Juma, Dubai Bank and the rest could squander billions of shillings of taxpayers’ money. The then Ministry of Finance published Gazette Supplement N0.50 of 5th August, 2004 and zero-rated tax on imported maize. This is a big shame for the NARC Administration. I am sure that those who are still alive will be looking me in the eye, wherever they are. Even after Moi exited from office, what changed was only the monkeys in the forest but the forest remained the same. Taxpayers’ money was lost. Those people got an exemption from the Treasury. When the LC was opened and the suspension done, it was established that it was a particular company called Erad, owned by a man called Jacob Juma, who is now heavily involved in the mining sector. He has since taken Cabinet Secretary Najib Balala to court. Shame on him! He now wants to take the same monkey business to the mining sector. The Committee has given us the financial, technical and human resource capacities of the entity called Erad. Even going by the way they wanted to loot, the highest price by then was US$223 per tonne of maize. It subsequently emerged that there was no maize that was supplied. There were only 20,000 bags. So, they realised that the air they wanted to supply to the Government was too little. So, they inflated the figure to 40,000 metric tonnes and increased the price to US$229 per tonne. Hon. Speaker, I want the media to be very fair to Kenyans. I do not want to talk for long but I want to thank the Committee for a job well done. This is the first Report of the Eleventh Parliament, which is a benchmark. A standard has been set by the PIC. The Eleventh Parliament must live to these kinds of Reports. The Reports that will be coming here in the next four years must be even better or of this standard. Those who live on impunity and corruption must be dealt with by the Eleventh Parliament. There is a man I 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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