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"content": "to come out and for the criminal fraudsters to be punished for ripping off the public. I have, therefore, been distressed that a copy of a purported incomplete preliminary report of KACC investigations has been in circulation here in Parliament and has been deliberately leaked and used to defame me in the media. It is worth noting that this is the first time in the history of KACC carrying out investigations, a report has been handled in this manner. One wonders why procedures in handling investigation reports were ignored in this matter. It is also curious that in an investigation, one can have credible evidence which the same investigator says is not corroborated. Let me declare, Mr. Speaker, Sir, that Musalia Mudavadi has been at the forefront of demanding full, credible and expeditious investigations into this matter and that all involved be punished to the full extent of the law. Mr. Speaker, Sir, political responsibility required that I act on reports as they were forwarded to me. I did act, not once or twice, but numerous times. I invited both the Departmental Committee on Local Authorities or concurred that they should investigate; I also was very clear that KACC should also carry out thorough investigations and called for a special audit report to be done. Once the reports were made available, I caused action to be taken against those found culpable. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on 16th February, 2010, I received a copy of the Controller and Auditor-Generalâs Special Audit Report on the cemetery land scandal on 16h Febrauary, 2010. The very following day, 17th February, 2010, I wrote to the KACC, asking that they expedite investigations and that appropriate action on this matter be taken. On 19th February, 2010, I wrote to Amb. Muthaura, requesting him to act on the recommendations of the Controller and Auditor-Generalâs Special Audit Report on the cemetery land scandal. To the best of my knowledge, no action was taken until this report from KACC came out, which until then I had not seen. It was surreptitiously leaked to the media for political reasons. Obviously, the owners of grand corruption and their surrogates are viciously fighting back to the extent that they are compromising the integrity of State institutions. Section 144 of the Local Government Act, Cap.265 stipulates that the Minister for Local Government must approve all land transactions by local authorities. On this matter, it is imperative that the public knows that I was never provided with any information and/or documents relating to any aspects of the fraudulent transaction as required by law. No one sought my approval from the beginning of the probe hatched way back in 2005. I was not meant to know anything. The Treasury allocated and released funds in excess of Kshs280 million before the land was identified, valued and approved for purchase. In fact, funds were illegally paid out to the purported owners and lawyers in June, 2008, more than six months before the sale agreement was signed. Clearly, the âenginesâ of this fraud are known at the Ministry of Local Government and the City Council of Nairobi. It is not Musalia Mudavadi. Nobody, not even the KACC has produced any evidence whatsoever that I, Musalia, was involved in this fraud, signed any documents, received any documents or benefited in any way whatsoever. I have carried out my political responsibility from the onset. I have played no role in the saga other than to, as a Minister, request for thorough investigations and demand that action be taken against those involved. I am, therefore, being linked to the scandal"
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