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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Whatever decision you make, I hope it will not act retroactively, that the present speaker will continue under the former rules. I hope the Senate Majority Leader accepts that because he is the Mover. I will be very brief. If you look at page 30, I would like to question the purchase of the various planes of the KQ. The list is on page 30. We are not told in this Report how the decision to purchase the Embraers was arrived at and who went to negotiate. We are not told that. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we are not told who are behind the Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV) which are mentioned on page 30. There are several of them; Simba, Nyati, Kifaru, Chui and others. Who are behind it? As a practicing lawyer, you will find that those who are behind it are very faceless people, lawyers from those countries and so on. However, we are required to pierce the veil and find out whose interests they were representing in this SPV although it is stated on the face of it that it was to ensure that money was paid and so on. We know that there was more to it than meets the eye. Whereas I agree that the Committee did not have time to go into that, to me, it appears that because this was the major cause of putting the airline to where it is today, we require a forensic audit on that Project Mawingu because we want to know the truth. It has been said that it must have been tainted with a bit of corruption. There is nowhere in this report they have investigated that. It is not an issue of corruption, but management. They have left that hanging in the air. However, I do not blame them because they did not have time or the capacity to do so. That capacity can only come to the fore through a forensic audit or a judicial commission of inquiry into Project Mawingu. As I support the Report, I urge that we do not stop there. There should be a forensic audit and judicial commission of inquiry into Project Mawingu, which was the major cause responsible for putting the airline where it is now. This will dispel any rumours and suspicions which surround the project. At the end of the day, we can say that it was just a bad management decision. However, I cannot accept that it was a bad management decision, because when they were making that decision, they knew it was bad. All the experts had agreed that it was not a proper decision to make. There are many technical legal issues involved. We should take into account the legal consequences to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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