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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Mungatana, MGH",
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    "content": "EACC has put a caveat on the release of monies for these projects to continue to their completion. There was a big complaint in the Uhuru administration that the courts are stopping developments through injunctions. The Chief Justice should do something about courts because they are issuing injunctions on Government projects and they are not moving. It is very sad that even in the Uhuru Government, because this matter has lasted for seven years, while the President was talking and complaining about the injunctions from the courts, the EACC was injuncting a Government project through some mysterious laws application in the guise of investigation. This is wrong. I remember very well when President Uhuru was lamenting that the courts are delaying Government projects. He said that we had borrowed the money. He gave calculations of the money we were paying yearly as interest because the courts have given injunctions. What about in this situation? The EACC has injuncted two big projects of our neighbouring Tharaka Nithi County. How much have they paid in terms of loss of opportunity to develop and discuss? Their people cannot even come to sit to listen to the Hon. Members discussing matters? The county headquarters cannot be located from Chuka to where it is supposed to be just because some people in the EACC are sitting on those files. We cannot continue like this. There is no super agency in this country. The courts are the supreme order. If there is an issue, they should have gotten an injunction from the courts so that the people can go and argue their case. Maybe this injunction would have been vacated. Why use the law to frustrate development in Tharaka Nithi? It is wrong for some people to imagine that because they are holding some offices, they can dictate and rule over us including the elected people. The EACC needs to ask itself whether there is something right they are doing in stopping a whole county, for seven years, from getting their county assembly offices and headquarters. What is wrong with surcharging a person that you investigate and find culpable? What is wrong with getting the Asset Recovery Agency (ARA) to file proceedings and get that money but the project to continue? Why put a caveat on money being released for the project to be finished? So, having understood the problem that is in Tharaka Nithi, our neighbours in Tana River County, I am surprised by this recommendation that the Committee has given. Why is the Committee again talking about a multi-agency? Sen. (Dr.) Oburu has told us this task force is going to waste more public funds. Why could they not just go straight to the point and recommend the removal of this caveat, investigations to continue and whoever is culpable to be surcharged? Why are we setting up another multifaceted organ go to Tharaka Nithi again and yet the Senate has already determined the issue? It is wrong."
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