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    "id": 685561,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "When deposit matured and the money became available for use, they decided to pay somebody believed to be a consultant, but who is basically an individual called Mukuria Ngamau. The gentleman went ahead to spent the taxpayers’ money at will. He bought an apartment in Lavington for Kshs48.5 million. People will think that he is a very hardworking individual but the truth is that he is living nice in Lavington on the sweat of the Kenyan taxpayer. He is living on money which was supposed to be lent to the youth of this country to help them get out of poverty. The gentleman decided to pay a debt of Kshs18 million he owed Great Lakes Limited. God knows what he got from that place. He also spent Kshs9.24 million to purchase an excavator from an international company and shipped it into the country to do business. I can go on and on. There was blatant theft of public money. The people who stole the money cannot hide. The details are there. The Committee has done a commendable job. I want to thank this Committee for writing a Report which is not ambiguous. It is very clear. Anyone can read the Report and understand what happened. There is impunity that is developing in this country. It is taking root and people do not care anymore. Public officers no longer engage their intellect as they steal taxpayers’ money because they know that no one will take them anywhere. I want to put it on record that if our investigative agencies tasked with fighting corruption cannot get the three Kenyans jailed, Kenyans should not continue paying them anymore. There is no reason for paying people at the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), and at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), if those institutions cannot prosecute a simple case like this one, where individuals conspired to steal taxpayers’ money without even attempting to cover their tracks. If these cases cannot be prosecuted successfully, I do not see why we should pay Mr. Tobiko and his team. We should disband that office and accept the fact that, as a country, we are unable to fight corruption."
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