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    "id": 896013,
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    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "Nyoro and the Chair will agree with me that they did not want to appear before the Committee until the Chairman gave them a summon. You know the Chairman belongs to a party that has been singing electoral reforms and justice. My friend Chairman, this is where you should do electoral reforms and justice. You should not do it in the street, but through the powers given to this House by the people of Kenya. So, we must deal with OT Morpho, whether they are called that way or SAFRAN Identity and Security or Duale. We must deal with them, if we want to have a free and fair election in 2022. Why did the President, the Deputy and former Prime Minister shake hands? They did so to bring the people of Kenya together. They have said we should forget about political parties and that Kenya is one. I really want to thank Hon. Kaluma because when he brought these amendments, I told him he should not run away on the day he is supposed to move because it has happened many times, where MPs disappear the last minute. I told him this because he is a man of integrity. I told him that we are going for a short recess and if he disappears, I have three other Members who will move the same amendments. There are people in the reserve bench. So, he should not try to disappear. This afternoon, I was looking for him but he came in late. I told Hon. Junet, Kaluma had disappeared then, all of a sudden, I saw him because he is not made of the stuff that disappears. Colleagues, let us deal with OT Morpho, I have no interest and I have never done business with them, but we must make sure that companies… When companies are in Europe, they follow a specific code of ethics and guidelines. When they come to Africa and to Kenya, they get involved in unethical behaviour and corruption. They do not employ our people. Why should they have double standard? OT Morpho cannot do in Paris, France, UK and the US what it is doing in Kenya. There is a serious governance code of ethics that guarantee all companies. I want to ask my chairman. Hon. Wandayi is very thorough. He has got very brilliant people in the Committee. This morning, somebody told me: “Why is Parliament reviving Ruaraka?” I told him: “It is not Parliament, it is the Auditor-General.” We have no business. We passed our Report in the Departmental Committee on Lands. In his Report, the Auditor-General is bringing money issues. Hon. Kaluma will be remembered by many parliaments to come. All the other companies that will do business in Kenya must do it ethically and sound, the way they do when they are in France. There is no way Emmanuel Macron will come here and teach us how to run the affairs of the State of Kenya when his own companies are involved in serious malpractices and corruption. So, if you guys from ODM agree your problem was technology and the technology was not even on the biometrics… In fact, biometric saved everybody. It stopped ghost voters and people coming to vote two or three times. We are on the right side of history. Ask yourself a question: Why is this company changing names and directors? How do I call myself Aden Duale today, next year I am called Washiali, the other year I am called Wandayi and the other year I am called Kaluma and Otieno? Why am I changing my names? Vodafone has never changed its name. The East African Brewers has never changed its name. Where you see there is change of name, there is ukora kabisa. I support the amendment and I think we should not even dwell too much on it. Put the Question, we approve it and then we discuss the report."
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