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    "id": 860763,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am a Member of this Committee and I confirm what my Chairperson has said. Some of these issues are very technical and that is why people are struggling to understand the things that he is saying. When the Chairperson was giving the Report, there was commotion and it may have been lost on many Members that he has given a Report which I had earlier alluded to during other businesses of the House. I had talked of the great work that was done by this Committee both in this Session and the Session that lapsed. There was a dispute between Kenya Pipeline Company and a company called Zhakem regarding Line V. If you go to the Hansard, you will realise that by this Committee operationalizing Article 201 and Article 225 of our Constitution, we stopped this parastatal from paying public money because of disputed contractual variation and that is part of what the Chairperson has ably reported. This is one issue that we are almost bringing to a close in our Committee. When we began looking at the dispute in the last Parliament, the variation was at Kshs10 billion but two weeks ago, the Chairperson of Kenya Pipeline Company appeared before our Committee and assured us that the figure has been varied downwards and it is now about KShs2.3 billion from Kshs10 billion. This means that Kshs7.6 billion was saved courtesy of the work of this Committee. There is a view that the figure can still be reviewed downwards."
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