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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I said that the Statement is very comprehensive. I did not say it is very factual. Those are two different issues. The reason why we have Committees is for that very purpose that Sen. Sakaja said; for interrogation. However, there is also an admission by the National Treasury that they received those reports and that the six months reports were not ready. This means that there must be a report lying somewhere. So, it is important because we have not functioned as we should because we do not have Committees. Therefore, it is important that once the Committee is put in place, it can demand the report, summon the PPRA and the National Treasury to present these reports and maybe relook at the law whether every six months is possible in receiving those reports although, the National Treasury has now said that they will use an online system. In their comprehensive answer that we have been given, they have said that they are re- engineering the AGPO portal system so that reports are real time. Once a tender is awarded, it is directly reported to the National Treasury so that the report may be easily accessible online. The rest of the issues raised by Sen. Sakaja are very weighty. He has been following them individually. He worked on the issue of the Bill. We are ready as the leadership of this House. He must accept to sit in that Committee as a Member so that historical experience and institutional memory on this issue can be carried forward; together with Sen. Mwaura and other Senators who are interested."
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