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    "id": 574823,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Simiyu",
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        "legal_name": "David Eseli Simiyu",
        "slug": "david-eseli"
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    "content": "temperatures, if you go through it, you will realise that there is really nothing new. In fact, you will find that His Excellency the Deputy President is exonerated completely from any association. All he did was that he needed to travel, he tasked the officers to get him a way to travel, he travelled and accomplished what he went to accomplish. So, the Report was raising political temperatures for no reason. The fact that the House Business Committee kept it away from the Order Paper for too long raised public interest for no good reasons. It is clear that at the time the process was undertaken, the new administration was hardly a month in office, and perhaps in their celebratory mood and probably some hubris also, they might have done some things that might not have been particularly above board. However, that should not be an excuse enough to delay such an innocuous Report coming to the Floor of the House. This Report basically shows that we need to be more careful in what we do in our undertakings. One very important part of this Report is the fact that even when procuring the aircraft, they did not take the safety of that delegation which included the Deputy President into account. This is the case and yet the Deputy President is a critical part of the administration of this country. They did not consider safety but rather whether the aircraft had the capacity to carry 14 people. That is a very dangerous way of carrying out national duties especially when you are intending to carry, by air, such high ranking members of the Government to various countries in Africa. The other thing that the Report has unveiled is that there were some missing LPOs. The LPO that was used to transact this transaction was also suspect in the sense that it was not fully signed by the time the payments were made. Then there were some LPOs that were missing and nobody seems to know where they are. The best thing that this Report has done is to unearth such things. With the recommendations and if the officers who are found to be culpable are investigated, probably the mystery of the missing LPOs and LSOs will be unveiled especially at this time when all the citizenry of Kenya have accepted that we all need to fight corruption. So, in a situation like that, unearthing the missing LPOs and what they could have been used for would be very critical."
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