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    "id": 560114,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/560114/?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": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, while the Government has substantial shareholding in organisations like the National Bank of Kenya (NBK), the Kenya Petroleum Refineries and Telkom Kenya, these organizations have refused to submit their books of accounts to the Office of the Auditor-General for review. That is why we are reminding them that we are now under a different constitutional dispensation and they must accept that reality. It is no longer like in the old days when, through a roadside declaration, the CBK would be exempted from the provisions of the State Corporations Act. The Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC), because it had a politically-appointed Chief Executive Officer would be exempted from the provisions of the State Corporations Act. The same would apply to the KRA. That era is gone and this country is no longer governed through roadside declarations. It is high time that the managements and the CEOs of these institutions submitted themselves to the rule of law. That is the only thing that will save them. That is why we have made a decision to invite these organizations to submit themselves to the rule of law. We have the constitutionally-driven independent Office of the Auditor-General."
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