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    "id": 749067,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/749067/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyongesa",
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        "legal_name": "Paul Nyongesa Otuoma",
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    "content": "without him being there. As I speak, some of these fellows are still walking in our streets. Some are even transforming themselves into politicians to come here and play oversight roles over the very same institutions they helped to loot. It is a sad day and moment for our country. Mr Harakhe should be behind bars. I was even surprised when a name, Mr. Otuoma, appeared here and Harakhe tried to associate that name with me thinking that that was my brother. You can see how the networks of corruption want to pull in everybody to think that in the process of smearing everybody, they can get away with some of these things. Then it turns out that this one Otuoma was not my brother, son or anybody related to me. This was just a Kenyan like any other, who was involved in whatever scandal that was mentioned there. But Harakhe, in his submissions, tried to drag my name in. as I said, that was neither my brother nor any of my relatives. There are procedures through which you get consultants within the Government, but that does not mean that you should contravene procurement or any other laws that are supposed to be followed. In this case, one consulting firm was procured. They even overpaid the firm and some of the things they had procured did not offer solutions to the problems the NYS was facing. When we introduced reforms at the NYS, we said that we must create capacity within the institution. Instead of continuing to create capacity in that institution, all that was circumvented. In the process, an institution that had a budget of only Kshs1.5 billion could not have created capacity to absorb all the billions of shillings that were channelled to the institution. When you want to steal public funds in this country, you come up with consultancy. I want to commend the Chair, my brother Eng. Gumbo. I know the cartels of corruption have infiltrated our parties and you can see the kind of damage they caused to some of us. The"
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