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    "id": 809530,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/809530/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Suba South, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. John Ng’ongo",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
        "slug": "john-mbadi"
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    "content": " Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury, Henry Rotich. You did not want us to mention the names and I am telling you we have to mention these names. If we have to slay the dragon of corruption in this country, we have to mention names. These people are not faceless. We put you in public office in trust to protect taxpayers’ money. Remember Kenyans who earn less than Kshs20,000 pay tax. They pay tax for other people to profit. People who earn huge sums of money at the end of the month still want to take Kenyans’ money. It is painful. The CS pretended to be ignorant. In fact I asked him, personally: “ Bwana CS, I know you. You can hardly authorise any money to be paid out of Consolidated Fund especially under Article 223 without being so certain that that money is for a good cause and that the expenditure is urgent and cannot wait.” Given that this money was paid under Article 223, the CS for National Treasury must be investigated with the people who approved this payment. There is a very curious recommendation here, that the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission should take responsibility for loss of public funds amounting to Kshs.1.5 billion as part payment made by the NLC to Afrison Import Export Ltd and Huelands Ltd. The EACC could have slept on the job but why do they take responsibility for money eaten by others? We know very well that NLC is the one that made this payment. The Ministry of Education, Education, Science and Technology agreed with them and the National Treasury paid the money. Why then do you push it to an investigative organ? Very soon you will be told that Parliament should take responsibility for not investigating this matter when it came up. There are so many times that I do not agree with EACC in their work, but on this one, this recommendation is misplaced. The right people mentioned here should be held responsible. It is very clear. The Chairman of the NLC who is my good friend, and I am sure he is watching, said he can even go to The Hague. To me, it is very simple. If I were the one who does such kind of job for the 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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