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    "id": 1010357,
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    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
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    "content": " Hon. Speaker, that is why I explained that if you look at my proposal on how to amend Recommendation (v), I said that my version is even worse than that of the Committee because I was still mentioning the DCI. So, that needs to go out so that this can be investigated by a single body that Parliament can properly oversee in doing it. I was just picking with Hon. Abdullswamad and I agreed that if there is any place where the report of the investigations ought to go, then it should be to the DPP for appropriate action. The thinking is whether we need it or we just remove the requirement of the report being taken anywhere. So, the EACC to just investigate and it ends at that. There is a question that we need to deal with. If the EACC is investigating, we will experience something which I have seen in this House. I sat in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs with the Deputy Speaker sometimes in the 11th Parliament. I remember falling short of requiring the investigating body to report back. Nothing was happening on some very sensitive corruption cases which ended up in court. I was thinking that there is a way we can balance reporting so that if it is not to the National Assembly, then it should be to a body which can undertake appropriate action. This should be subject to the consideration that the report be only taken to the DDP if the EACC finds that there is some wrong doing. That can be redrafted. However, there is a bigger problem; the reason as to why I was saying that just amending this thing on the Floor may not help. There is a ramification of Recommendation (v) in its amended form. With regard to Recommendations (iv) and (iii)… Hon. Speaker, get what I am talking about. There is an obvious ramification. That is why we need to look at them because somebody may ask: “As much as you are recommending investigations, are these actions being prematurely recommended or not?” So, we need to look at the Act. These regulations are new. Give the Committee time to look at Regulations No.21 and 22, so that in the text, if we are deleting Recommendations (iii) and (iv), as I proposed, I will let Hon. Abdullswamad."
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