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"speaker_name": "Hon. Mike Mbuvi Sonko",
"speaker_title": "The Governor of Nairobi City County",
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"content": "As you can see, transaction No.1, this is a cheque that was transacted on 30th June, 2016. It is a cheque from Lang’ata Constituency Development Fund of Kshs56,000, which was credited and on the same day, the same was withdrawn in cash, Kshs54,000, at Karen Branch. In the interest of time, I will not explain the entire statement because it is self- explanatory, but I will take you to the transactions in the same page for 2016 before I took over as the Governor, the same scandal was on-going. Page 235 reflects the cash deposits from the Nairobi City County bursary fund, withdrawn in cash from Karen Branch, transaction No.4 from the top of page 235. You will find that there is a cheque that was deposited then there is cash withdrawal. I just want to focus on Nairobi City County Government alone. If we move on to pages 236 and 237, there are the same transactions. A good example is on page 234. I was not the governor then, but the same scenario is witnessed here. For instance, the first transaction of the 17th June, 2017, another cheque from the Nairobi City County Government of Kshs25,000 was deposited in the Kobudho account. The second transaction, another cheque of Kshs25,000 was deposited. In the fourth transaction, there was a cash withdrawal from the Cooperative Bank of Kenya of Kshs125,000, monies meant for poor students withdrawn in cash by proxies for MCAs. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the scandal did not stop there. My first month in office on page 238, transaction No.1; you can see it there, cheque from Nairobi City County Government of Kshs25,000 deposited to this fake school. There are so many transactions of Kshs25,000. I want to refer the House to the third last transaction on page 238. On the 6th September, 2017, my first month in office, all these cheques that were deposited as you can see, page 238 from the top to the bottom, in the fourth last transaction, this money was withdrawn in cash by Mr. Job Omondi. I think that he is the Personal Assistant (PA) to the MCA for Karen. He withdrew Kshs449,000 in cash. The following day, he went to a different branch, Cargo Branch and withdrew another Kshs25,000. The statements are self-explanatory. Let us move on to page 241, again, cheques from Nairobi City County Government, transaction No.1 of 19th September, 2017. You can see the trend. Various cheques from the Nairobi City County Government were deposited in favor of this fake street school and fake account opened by MCAs. You can see that there are several transactions there of Kshs25,000. The same PA to the MCA withdrew the money in cash, Kshs900,000 on 21st September, 2017. On page 243, the various cheques which the Mover was complaining about, the ones I refused to release, there is a cheque in favor of Kobudho Education Centre of Cooperative Bank, City Hall Branch amounting to Kshs25,000. However, the reason I refused to release any further cheques is because the cheque was dated 26th April, 2017 and it was deposited on 9th September, 2018. They were forging and back-dating these cheques."
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