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    "id": 809425,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kathiani, WDM-K",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Robert Mbui",
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        "legal_name": "Robert Mbui",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. At the outset, this shows the importance of this House in handling complaints and petitions from the general public. This Committee seems to have done an excellent job from the presentation that has been given by the Chair. In fact, they show that they are a no-nonsense committee because they are trying to make sure that public money is properly utilised. Today afternoon we have been talking about the Appropriations Bill. As we have been passing our budgets, we know that the funds available are not even enough for the things that we want to do. We have been jostling here, moving money from one kitty to another and really trying to figure out how to make the little money available meet the budget that we have, which is not even enough at all to meet the needs of our people. So it shocks me when you see Government officers making financial decisions to the detriment of the public; Government officers who can pay for land that belongs to a school and even the principal or the headteacher of the school does not even know that that land is being paid for. The Constitution is clear about public participation. Who else would have been consulted if they could not even consult the principal and the senior teacher? This thing has the smell of a scam and it is important that as Parliament we put our foot down and ensure that this is sorted out. The Principal Secretary for the National Treasury according to this Report allowed payments without a formal request form the actual user who is the Principal and the Board. He was seeking budgetary allocation and trying to figure out how to get money before a formal request was made for him to make this payment. So, there seems to have been a serious cartel and an arrangement for Kenyans to be defrauded money that was going to be used to make a payment which was later going to be followed up and shared amongst senior people. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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