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    "id": 82971,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Keynan",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, shockingly, in between, 14,000 Euros which is equivalent to Kshs1.2 million was used as charges by the bank. Another 70,000 Euros up to now is unaccounted for. But cleverly, the Governor of the Central Bank wrote an official letter because I think he did not want to reprimand the Ministry, confirming that the money received actually was less 84,000 Euros and passed on to the Ministry a copy of the Swift transfer plus a letter up to date. The explanation was that this money was used as rental expenses by our Mission. But rent expenses are provided for in the budgetary system. I am not a financial ace but Appropriations-in-Aid can only be utilized when there is authority from Treasury. That authority has not been given or any evidence of that authority has not been passed on to the Committee up to now. So, as we speak, we must have lost 14,000 Euros in transferring the money to London. We must have lost another 14,000 Euros in transferring the money back to Nairobi and eventually to Tokyo. So, in the process, we have lost thousands of Euros that would have been saved if there was a prudent financial mechanism. First of all when the Ministry got this money, they suspended their project in Lagos and Abuja. They suspended it for about nine months because the money that should have been used for that project was transferred to Tokyo. As I speak now, our mission staff who were moved from Lagos to Abuja are squatters in a small building owned by the Kenya Airways in Lagos. There is a letter here addressed to the Ministry asking for money to rent a new premise in Lagos. How do you explain this? Where are the mechanisms because we are talking about the state? You moved out of this. You sold your property and eight months down the line, you are asking for money from the Treasury in order to rent a building. When we interacted with our Immigration Officer, and immigration is a quasi security institution, he said he has to carry a bag that contains his rubber stamp, visa forms and he cannot be given a diplomatic facility because there is no where to put it. That must be addressed as a matter of urgency. That is the predicament facing our mission staff."
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