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    "id": 816165,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, at the outset, I thank the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and his Committee for making sure that they have lived to the reading of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act, Section 62. This House cannot be used as a place to sanitise people who have appeared before the anti-corruption court – a competent court in this country. There are people who are trying to connect Ben Chumo to the President. Ben Chumo went through a competitive process. The President was given some names. As per the Act, the President submitted the name of Ben Chumo to Parliament. What happens between the time the President submits the name to the time when this House, as a plenary, approves it, is none of the President’s business. The President, for example, can send you here as a nominee for ambassadorial position to Saudi Arabia. In between, if you are involved in a rape case and that country or Parliament rejects you, it is none of the business of the appointing authority. I saw people saying that the President should have withdrawn the name. That is not the case. What has haunted Ben Chumo is his history – how he worked with the contractors. Whether he has “eaten” big or small, he is paying for crimes that he committed when he was at 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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