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    "id": 863638,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kilifi North, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Owen Baya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Owen Yaa Baya",
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    "content": " Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move: THAT, the Motion be amended by inserting the following immediately after the words “November 14, 2018”– “subject to deletion of the recommendation appearing under paragraph 243, item no. 2 on page 277 of the Report, and substituting therefor the following– “The Accounting Officer during the year under review be reprimanded for introducing a new criterion during evaluation and comparison of tenders and proceeding to cancel the tender for lowest bid contrary to Section 66 (2) of the Public Procurement and Disposal Act, 2005 and Section 74(4)(a) of the Public Finance Management Act, 2012.\" This is a voluminous Report and the Committee did a commendable job. They went to details of the Report but there are certain things that they could have made some mistakes that invariably could have been made by the Auditor-General at that particular time. It is a fact that during the time when this contract was signed, there was a different Principal Secretary who signed the contract. The President, on 14th August 2014, issued an order to transfer Principal Secretaries and new Principal Secretaries named here came in after 20th of August. This contract was signed on 12th August. According to the information that we have, it was Mutea Iringo. He was the first Principal Secretary of Interior at that time and he signed the contract as it were. When the Auditor-General makes recommendations, he cites the Principal Secretary who comes in after – that is Dr. Monica Juma – and is named in this report. But she came in after the contract had been signed. Therefore, there could have been an error of omission or commission or whatever intention it was but this is a factual thing that I am talking about. It is a fact that Mutea Iringo signed the contract but to call for the reprimand of another Principal Secretary is a mistake. The Principal Secretary who signed the contract should take responsibility and not another Principal Secretary who came in later. Therefore, it is possible it was just an error at that time when the audit was carried out. You can check any record and you will know that Mutea Iringo was the Principal Secretary at that time and Kimaiyo signed as a witness at that time. So, we should not sacrifice people or put dirt on people for whatever it is that is intended just because we want to do that. But the facts must be established. What I am putting on the table are facts."
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