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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Thank you. I want to enlighten you on what the Standing Orders say. Having participated in the drafting of the current Standing Orders, the work of the Committee on Implementation is to look at all reports adopted by this House and ensure that the contents of those reports are implemented to the letter. If this is passed today, we expect you to be seized of it tomorrow and ensure that it is implemented to the letter. Thank you. So, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, whose interests does Mohammed Nyaoga represent in Telkom Kenya? Whose interests? What of Ashif Kassam? Let me tell you something a bit about him. Ashif Kassam was an employee of the Treasury. Ashif Kassam was their financial consultant. Ashif Kassam ended up being a director of Telkom Kenya. Can you look at the linkage? An employee of Telkom Kenya, a financial consultant to the privatisation process and eventually a director in Telkom Kenya. That person must be special. We want to know how special that person is. Whose interests does he represent? Mohammed Nyaoga is one of the key legal minds in the Republic of Kenya and he is somebody that I really respect but we will want to know who he represents. He could not tell us whose interests he represents in the board when he appeared before us. Certainly as a lawyer, he has a client. Therefore, one of the things that we are asking EACC is to investigate, unearth and tell the Kenyan taxpayers whose interests Mohammed Nyaoga represents in Telkom Kenya. This is one thing that we expect EACC to unearth because they have the capacity. We are also recommending that all future Government of Kenya privatisations must be guided by the Privatisation Act, any other relevant law, the Office of the 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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