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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "I hope that, as a senior Member of Parliament, hon. Ababu Namwamba also understands that our work was not to bring the audited accounts. We will be bringing the audited accounts of the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) in the procedural way that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the Public Investments Committee (PIC) work. These are not audited accounts. This was a contract – an investment that was made. Therefore, the accounts of this particular institution will be presented in the same manner that is consistent with our tradition, as Parliament. Therefore, this is not the Auditor’s Report on the accounts of the NCPB as normally presented by the Office of the Auditor-General. It is a special report interrogating an investment in the name of a contract. It is dealing with a particular issue. I hope that by now, hon. Members are well versed with the particular issue. The third aspect which I find a bit frivolous, is on the amendments that we have suggested. It is a suggestion. It is just like a Motion. We have just passed a Motion by hon. Jamleck Kamau but it does not, immediately, translate into an Act of Parliament. There are those who have a problem with the many suggested amendments that we have made on a number of statutes. We are only saying that in order for us to realise some of the issues that we have raised, can somebody be courteous enough to bring amendments to a number of statutes? Nowhere in this report have we suggested to amend anything. We just said that attempts should be made to bring it in line with what we want to achieve. What does it say? Efforts should be made to amend the Constitution to rationalise the number of Commissioners of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and make the nominee of the Law Society of Kenya (LSK) a permanent member of the JSC. This is just a suggestion. What we are saying is that the LSK representative should be a permanent member of the JSC. We found this prudent because of what is going on in the JSC. Therefore, there is nowhere in this report where we have suggested the dissolution of the JSC. Therefore, anybody with that mindset is completely out of order. He has not read the report. Secondly, we understand and we have the facts. Hon. Members know that by now, I and my colleagues understand institutional roles. There is nowhere in this report where we have contradicted any ruling of a judge but we have interrogated the decision by the arbitrator. When the time comes, we will explain why we interrogated the decision of the arbitrator. The arbitrator is not a court of law. So, anybody saying that we have contradicted a decision of the High Court is wrong. We have not. There is nothing like that in this Report. It only exists in the minds of those who purport so."
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