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    "id": 556360,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/556360/?format=api",
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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": "I want to go on record on this that any attempt to pay that exit fee will be fraudulent and robbery on the part of the people of Kenya. Therefore, those who are interested in looking after the public coffers should be careful because history is going to haunt them. They should make sure that, that exit fee of US$5 million is not paid at all. The entire process was fraudulent and not transparent. Therefore, that exit clause was the only thing that Essar Energy expected from the entire transaction. This particular issue has come at a time when the Kenyan nation is in a rush. Very soon, we will be joining the league of the oil producing nations. We are destroying ours yet Uganda is in the process of coming up with their own Uganda Refinery facility. Tanzania is in the process and South Sudan, who know the current challenge, is also in the process. Hon. Speaker, this country will be forced to start again from scratch once the current oil exploration is through and we will be in a position to refine our oils. The fallacy will be a country that had a facility in 1959, in 2015 asking a neighbouring country that has just come up with the same facility to refine her oil or export her own crude oil to the Middle East or other countries for refining. For this to be cured, the Committee has made the following suggestions so that we can cure this anomaly: - The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) should investigate the circumstances under which the Cabinet decision for modernisation and refurbishment of the refinery was ignored and find out the officers who flouted the Cabinet decision."
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