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    "id": 895961,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/895961/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ugenya, MDG",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. David Ochieng’",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "David Ouma Ochieng'",
        "slug": "david-ouma-ochieng"
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    "content": "I want to address the Speaker. Mine is a legal issue and that is why I am waiting for your ear. The issues raised by Hon. Kaluma are important and weighty legally. They are not issues you can put to vote, in my opinion. He mentioned to you that I was in Parliament when this law was passed. If you read the Companies Act, 2015, Section 974, it will tell you which particular companies are being referred to. I have not read the Report yet but off my feet, on the issue of whether a company is qualified or not, especially in an international tender like this one, probably the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission said this is an international tender and, therefore, no one needs to come to Kenya to register first before they are able to participate in the tender. The issues you are being asked to put to vote are legal and you need to give your ruling on before you can allow them to be debated. They portend huge legal ramifications. It means not just this IDEMIA, but many other companies that have been doing business in this country may fall under this. It may easily make this country to fall under a serious tornado of legal disputes coming from international companies. It is just not this company since many companies have done business like this in the country many times. As we speak, we have tenders in our daily newspapers inviting international companies to come and bid. That is not part of what they are required to do. Some of the amendments that are being proposed… I am happy Hon. Speaker for the new iPad. I came in today and I was taught how to use it. I can tell you it is good. I do not have to carry any paper to Parliament. I have interacted with it and it is so easy to use. The day the company that supplied these iPads falls into these things that Hon. Kaluma is talking about they will ask you, as the Chairman of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), to be legally charged because that company was not qualified at that time. You need to make a ruling on this. This is not a matter that you are going to allow Members to debate on and decide either way. It is a legal and national issue on how Kenya will engage the rest of the world in terms of trade. That is my two cents on this. Thank you."
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