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    "id": 721773,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/721773/?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": "Kenya. Therefore, the plunder, wastages and the mismanagement that is going on must be brought to an end. The important document called Mwongozo, which I would not want to call the infamous, generated by the Jubilee Government, was a good document. What happened to it? It was meant to reform the parastatal sector. What happened to the Mwongozo document? It was a beautiful document. It was meant to reform the parastatal sector. The document was launched, but it remains on the shelves. It remains in the archives. It is not being implemented. Therefore, it joins the list of the many documents that have been generated. It reminds me of something. In 1998 when I was newly elected and I was a Member of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade, with a number of other Members, we decided to do a benchmark visit to Malaysia. We were trying to come up with a document we would like to use as the basis of coming up with an investments promotion council. One of the senior deputy clerks in that Parliament went to the archives, got a document and gave us a photocopy of something that they borrowed from Kenya in 1974. Is that not painful? Is it not shameful? What has happened to those organisations? The onus of managing taxpayers’ money and public resources rests with the elected representatives of the people of Kenya. That is why the framers of the current Constitution, in Article 1, equated representation to our sovereignty. Representation is equal to sovereignty. What is representation under Article 95 as read together with Article 96 of the Constitution? What is sovereignty? Sovereignty is the very essence of the nationhood of the Republic of Kenya. If representation is equated to sovereignty, are you discharging your function as a Member of Parliament, as the duly elected representative of the people of Kenya? We must wake up. I beg to move and call on the Vice-Chair, Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah, to second."
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