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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Muzee",
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kazungu Muzee",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to speak to this Report. I rise to support this Report. Today, I feel very sad. First and foremost, I am a member of the Departmental Committee on Energy, Information and Communications and so, I know first-hand the issues that have been raised here. That is because we made tours to the Kenya Oil Refinery in Mombasa. We met the management and staff there. We saw everything. Just like the Committee that investigated this matter, we had a chance to talk to many people who are connected to the issue of the oil refinery. It is a sad day for Kenya because, first of all, we have lost the only oil refinery that we have from Cape Town to Cairo. If you look at the map of Africa and look at the oil refineries in the Continent from South Africa all the way to Egypt, the only oil refinery we have in between is in Mombasa, Kenya. This has been the case before those sad events happened. So, when you look at that, it tells us where our focus lies. It is sad and I think some Kenyans need to go through classes on patriotism. They need to go through that just before we take them to jail. Indeed, this is a jail case. However, before we do that, we need to teach them what it means to be patriotic. When you are signing off the wealth of Kenyans out there to speculators, you are not worth to be a Kenyan. It is the same thing when you are signing off job opportunities. When we went to Changamwe, people were crying. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I encountered former classmates in high school and university who were working there. They were pleading with us and crying that they were losing their jobs and opportunities. They cried to us that their careers were coming to an end. We asked ourselves: “Where is patriotism?” We wondered where Kenyans’ hearts are when someone can sit down and structure something like this and ship all our wealth and opportunities away, leaving our people destitute. The people are known. I do not want to go to the story. It is there. People are just letting through some wheeler dealing and suddenly, we are left here wondering what happened. The fact is that people know that something wrong has been done, but nothing happens. Ideally, we should now be seeing people thrown in the courts and answering to charges. If you can walk away with US$13 million easily like that; or rather a cheque can flip between 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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