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    "id": 1133638,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Homa Bay Town, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Peter Kaluma",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Peter Opondo Kaluma",
        "slug": "george-peter-opondo-kaluma"
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    "content": " I do not need to. We look at constitutions of more progressive countries. Article 10(2) (c) of the Constitution says that the national values and principles of governance include good governance, integrity, transparency and accountability. What we are dealing with is a law relating to proceeds of crimes and money laundering. You are being told that lawyers are being discriminated against because they are not being enlisted alongside other professionals other than accountants. Look at page 1221 of the Bill, which provides section 48 being amended by the clause some Members are talking about. Accountants are already covered. The current section 48(b) provides for a whole array of service providers. It is very wide. It is not only about lawyers and accountants. It includes a trust or a company service provider not otherwise covered elsewhere in this Act and which, as a business, provides any of the listed services to third parties. You are being told about accountants and lawyers. Remember all these service providers are, of necessity, professionals like we provide legal services. Anybody, so long as you provide the services listed, is covered. So, the first point I am making is that these presenters before you are misleading the House. There is an array of services listed which, for the sake of time, I will not read. If you interpret those services, they are wide and cut across so many professions. Do not tell us only lawyers and accountants are targeted. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when you are dealing with the matter of fishing, you deal with fishermen, fishmongers and fish eaters like me. If we are dealing with proceeds of crime and how they are handled, money laundering, you will target those professions and service lines which may interact with such money. I may not be clear to you but in my old life, I was lucky to be a partner of a man called Prof. PLO Lumumba. That is the time when robbers were being caught around here. One evening we were approached by a senior CID officer to keep for them money in our clients account. We thought it was coming in cheque form as we waited for it in the evening, only for money which amounted to Kshs3 million then to come in a canter."
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