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    "id": 1097671,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, there are indications that, indeed, the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government is the one who had orchestrated the meeting that is to be held this morning with the print and electronic media fully broadcasting the proceedings of that Committee live. Hon. Speaker, we talk about state capture and capture of the Legislature by the Executive. That is one of the issues I would want you to guide us on. How do those other people outside there come to allow Cabinet Secretaries and other functionaries of Government to cause committees to sit for them to come and advance whatever issues they want to advance? Why are they using a parliamentary process to sanitise their actions? To me, this is going to the core of belittling the mandate of this House and playing games using our oversight role. I am not saying that the Committee should not enquire into anything. They have every right to enquire into anything, but we must not allow the Committee to be used by the Executive to cleanse or, in any way, use parliamentary privileges to discourage people who cannot defend themselves before that Committee. I have seen part of the document tabled. It has information that has been tabled before that Committee, including listing all the properties, farms, businesses and kiosks owned by the Deputy President. How many officers are guarding those premises? How I wish we could have seen the same Cabinet Secretary indicating how many GSU officers are guarding his own house in Karen and in Nyamira, and how many are guarding his farm in Kiserian."
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