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    "id": 737669,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Aden",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the debate on this important NYS Report. It was done by the Public Accounts Committee where I am privileged to sit as a member. We took many months to make sure that we did as much as possible to get to the bottom of that whole scandal. At the outset, it is unfortunate that the Kenyan economy is ailing and is always dealt a big blow by corruption in mega scales. A colleague who spoke before me earlier spoke of literally every presidency that has existed in this country. For every presidency, you can name one major scandal of its time. In our times, the NYS saga is probably the largest and will remain to be the largest for quite some time. It is my hope that such does not happen again because having sat through those Committee sessions and listened to witnesses and experts talk, it was clear that the NYS saga was a corruption scandal that was shocking in nature - if I may use the word. It was one that was well-crafted, clearly thought through and used very highly skilled or sophisticated professionals to kick-start the process in a manner that will, otherwise, look very noble. The action of one firm - The Consulting House - which came in and produced the Five- Point Vision Plan was the onset or beginning of that whole scheme. It had to be made to look like something very noble – like the creation of employment for our youth - by using our youthful force to bring development such as roads and dams. Those are noble things that every ordinary Kenyan would aspire to see happening in our country. Unfortunately, the sweet wordings, the very fancy and lengthy television adverts that we saw about the NYS showing those young boys and girls kicking high with brand new jembes on their arms looked quite sophisticated at that time. What has now emerged is that all that was just the framing or the casing of what was a big rot in the Government at that point in time. Those who planned to steal decided to do so in a manner that has never been seen in Kenya before. Let me explain one thing that surprised me very much as I sat through that Committee. First of all, contracts amounting holistically to over billions of shillings were issued without going through the Government procurement procedures. This was done without going through the Inter-Ministerial Tender Committee. For example, Kshs791 million, which was meant to do a road, there was no contribution at all to the person who was paid the money. That young lady had nothing with it. She did not even contribute a single grain or pebble of sand to the project yet she walked away with Kshs791 million that was paid to her. How did it happen? A fake contract was done through the supplies branch. Well, that would surprise me. But it is even more surprising to see that the same contract is now delivered to the procurement channel of the Government of Kenya all the way to the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) without anybody detecting that the Kshs791 million was based on fake invoices, fake Local Purchase Orders (LPOs) and fake supply branch contract."
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