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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Olekina",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ledama Olekina",
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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand guided. Martin Luther King once said that in the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. The most important issue here is the issue of fiducial responsibility. The question which we were tasked as a Committee is to investigate whether public lost money. That is the task we were given and that is what we set out to do. As a Member of that Committee, I had anticipated that once we conclude our investigation, we would be able to bring our report to this House and give the Members an opportunity to be able to interrogate the report, so that when each Member stands here, they can to refer to it. Yesterday we were discussing about the issue of compulsory acquisition of land, while passing the new law. That is one of the issues that we focused and conversed on, in the process of acquiring the Ruaraka land. During the time of our inquiry, we invited and visited all the stakeholders in this matter. One of things we found was that the NLC, the PS and CS of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology came in here and presented their own direction. So, what we are presenting here, is what the Committee observed. These recommendations are the facts as were presented before us. There was nothing personal, but the issues of fiducial responsibility. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we interviewed the PS, Dr. Belio Kipsang’, he presented the documents on the process of acquiring that land for the two schools. However, we poked holes in his submissions. One of the things that was very clear he had set up a Committee headed by a gentleman called Mr. John Ololtuaal Lekakeny. That is where I want to begin my submissions in the issue of this transaction. Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, I thought the Ministry would have implemented the report by the taskforce for the following reasons. First, when you establish a taskforce, you are using public funds for them to go out and investigate whether that piece of land belongs to the public or it is a private land. At that point, the taskforce found out the following: “The Nairobi Regional Coordinator for Education, Mr. John Ololtuaal Lekakeny, filed a letter Ref No.CQAS/KAS/8/16 dated 3rd February 2017, which is annexed to this report, writing to the Principal Secretary, Ministry of Education, Dr. Belio Kipsang, forwarding a copy of the assessment report on quality assurance and standard of the Ruaraka High School.” In one of the recommendations he made in the report was that the land on which the school was situated was a surrendered portion of land, for public utility. The claimant had, therefore, no basis for compensation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would have expected my good friend, Dr. Belio Kipsang, because he is the Accounting Officer, to halt the process immediately because the taskforce had established the land in question was a public land. However, when we The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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