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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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    "content": "On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. We were waiting for the end of the investigations, so that the Permanent Secretaries and other senior officers involved could either be cleared or be found to have done something wrong. The only way that this House would have known that is if that report had taken the legal route, which requires that it goes through the Attorney-General. That has not been done. We are satisfied that the investigations are complete because the Executive which ordered them to be done has used that information to then act, namely, it has lifted the suspension of those Permanent Secretaries. If the Attorney-General was asking that the report may not be laid before this House, probably, as Members of the Back Bench, we would have accepted, if at that time, the Executive had not already used the report. Since the Executive has already used the report, it is important that the country be told what it is that was inside that report which informed the decision by the Government to lift the suspension. It is very important that as you rule, either yourself or you ask the Attorney-General to tell Parliament and the country at large, the legality of the current presence of those Permanent Secretaries who were not cleared by this report and who currently are working. We already know what is inside the report. We know that the report only cleared Dr. Mohammed Isahakia and Mr. Caroli Omondi. But the same report actually indicts the other Permanent Secretaries. It is important that the report be tabled, so that the country, once and for all, know its contents."
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