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    "id": 556437,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Muzee",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Daniel Kazungu Muzee",
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    "content": "Treasury and other offices for two years and yet nothing happens, what have we become now? This is sad. I want to thank the Chairperson of PIC for going through these issues. Like I said, our Committee investigated this matter too. We are seized of these issues. I am glad you are bold enough to name some of those people who did wrong to Kenyans. However, it should not stop there. Today, we are talking about the oil refinery. If nothing happens, this will become the order of the day. Tomorrow it is going to be another institution and we have seen it. The examples are there. In the Departmental Committee on Energy, Information and Communications, last year, we were grappling with the issue of Telkom Kenya. We had to start thinking of how to hide a hole with Kshs6 billion, which is taxpayers’ money. It is happening all the time and it must stop. The way to stop it is by acting. We need to see action. We have been talking too much. The President was here and we all gave him a standing ovation when he talked strongly about corruption. This is a perfect example. However, will we see action after this, or are we just going to be a talk show, leave this thing, go home and nothing happens? When I was a student, I went to the oil refinery to just look at how things happen there. Some of us even thought that at some point, we would work there. Well, thank God we did not end up there because we would be jobless today. You can imagine how things are there. This must stop. I want to thank the Chairman of PIC for going through this matter. He has come up with bold recommendations. I just hope they will be followed through. I am wondering whether or not it is the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) that will take up this matter because it is grappling with its own issues now. I do not know whether it is a revamped EACC that will look into this matter. I do not know where the Efficiency Monitoring Unit (EMU) was when all these things were happening. Some of the names being mentioned here are names of people from the Coast Province and they should have known better and said: “No, I am a custodian of a national institution that is taking care of the lives of so many Kenyans and, therefore, I cannot be party to some game that will ship away the opportunities available to my people and leave them destitute.” Did that happen? No, it did not. After so many years, we are still wondering what really happened. The truth should be told. If you look at the litany of names here, they belong to top Government officers who should have said no to that matter. They should have asked what Kenya’s place would be in the whole deal. I am having issues even with Essar as the investor. I am sorry to say this. We invited Essar here when we were dealing with the Telkom issue to set up a business. It is called YU now, but it is the same Essar group. What are we seeing with Essar or YU for that matter? Nothing! We are still with the good old Safaricom and maybe Airtel. It is the same story. People come. Vetting is done – whether it is done at all – and suddenly we have investors who have a dodgy history. Then we start shipping our opportunities and make ourselves a laughing stock. We lose opportunities and the country bleeds. We come here and start wondering what will happen next. Instead of taking bold steps to stop this rot, nothing happens and people just laugh out there. When will we ever learn? What happened when these problems were happening? Instead of us rallying together and saying that let us see what we can do to save the oil refinery, what did we do? You know who the oil marketing companies are. They decided not to buy oil from the oil refinery. They said that they wanted to import directly 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."
}