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    "id": 1133720,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "given over to the Commissioner of Prisons to handle you. Your assets will be recovered through the Assets Recovery Agency so that nobody benefits from stealing public property. I am surprised that this House that swore to uphold the Constitution which includes protection of public property has Members who are telling us that this is the wrong thing to do. On the one hand, I have said lawyers are at risk if we do not pass this law. There are good lawyers who handle matters in good faith. We also said we stand the risk of being blacklisted and the entire country would lose. The future of our children will be in jeopardy. I do not want to belabour the point. This matter is straightforward. I would urge that we conclude it today. The question can be put another day. But for Members who have endured being here the whole afternoon, at least, let their wait not be in vain. In terms of limitation of rights, a series of stakeholders have appeared before the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning since December. The Committee has brought a Report which Members, including some of those raising issues, have read and accepted. This is Kenya at test. The whole world is watching. Kenya was given the honour of chairing the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). I was there and saw the President presiding over the UNSC. Immediately after that, we were invited to visit Joe Biden in the Oval Office. I could see how our President was being seen as the stabiliser for the region. They will now say Kenya is a country of money launderers who cannot even pass a simple law. Let us not bring ourselves down when we have been lifted and given global honour. During the State of the Nation Address, the President enumerated investors lining up to come to Kenya. How do you get an investor to construct the road from Rironi to Mau Summit, under PPP, to put in so much money when he cannot move the money through the international financial system because we are money launderers? We are basically saying we kill all investments just because a few people are not happy with what we are doing. Let us look at the bigger picture of where we want to put Kenya, not the half-empty glass that people are looking at. Let us look at what we can do to fill our glass. As the Mover of the Bill together with the Chairperson of the Committee, we will be happy to look at all amendments by Members to make sure that we pass a law that is good for everyone and not just for a few. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those remarks, I beg to move and ask Hon. Kaluma, a seasoned lawyer, to second. Then we will hear from the Chairperson. I beg to move."
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