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    "id": 1153040,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wako",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Sitswila Wako",
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    "content": "Just to show that he was a man who had a strict adherence to the rule of law, sometimes a decision would be made when I was out of the country and my people that I left behind would be asked to give an opinion by officials of the Government. Whenever they went to Mwai Kibaki and said they had a legal opinion from the office of the Attorney-General. He would always ask whether the Attorney-General Amos Wako was there when that opinion was given. Was he party to this opinion? If they said no, he was out of the country, he would say “ basi tungoje mpaka arudi\". Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was around most of the time because of legal matters nothing would happen until President Mwai Kibaki heard from the Principal Legal Adviser to the Government who was me then. That made me very happy and proud. In fact, I had a President who had confidence in me. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think I came in when the Chairperson of the Legal Committee was talking about Kibaki’s zero tolerance towards corruption. Once more I can give you many examples on this, but let me just give you one example which was World Duty Free Case Versus the Republic of Kenya. In this case, the person from Dubai that is an Arab Emirate, Mr. Ibrahim, was claiming against Kenyan Government billions of dollars. Actually, it was US$500 million as special damages, general damages plus cost. However, somewhere within the case which he had filed before the arbitration, he had mentioned that he had obtained that contract by bribing the leadership of the country at time. He mentioned it that at one time he had to give about US$1 million. Afterwards, he explained that he had been told that money was not a bribe as such, but it was to help in the various harambees . So, the contract was tainted with corruption. I took the primary point that an International Tribunal could not enforce a contract which was tainted with illegality and corruption. We had the affidavit of the person himself, the claimant, saying that he bribed the leadership of the country to obtain the contract. Mr. Speaker, Sir, what happened next was that the claimant got hold of some very senior people in Government and somehow convinced them that the case should be"
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