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    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyikal",
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        "legal_name": "James Nyikal",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. Whereas I support this Report, it is also a sad Report. It is a sad Report because it is a litany of impunity. The Report starts - I have not read the whole thing - but the observations of the Committee and the documents available show that the land is public property. The Managing Director defies the summons of the Committee several times. He sends lawyers and the lawyers cannot give adequate information. The lawyers indicate that they do not understand how their own client acquired this piece of land. The Ministry gives information that the acquisition of this land is illegal. There is no document showing that this land was bought or acquired legally. The Chairman writes a letter without any documents, according to the Report, showing how this land was acquired. He cannot produce those documents. While this matter is going on, the Chairman decides to illegally remove his vice- chairperson who was handling this matter. The information that the Chairman gives is similar to the information that the MD gives indicating clear collusion between the Chairman and the MD of the cement company. The MD has the audacity to sue the Departmental Committee knowing that the powers of those Committees are similar to that of the High Court. The Chairman has that audacity to sue the Committee yet every information indicates that the land does not belong to the company. What else do we need? Then we go to the recommendations. The recommendations are indicating that we take this thing for further investigation. I support those recommendations but I think they fall far short of the action that the Committee needed to take. First of all, I think the Committee can legally sanction the Chairman and use legal means for his removal. Because this is again just going to put us through another process with the Ethics and Anti-Corruption and Commission (EACC), we have no control on what is going to 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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