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    "id": 126383,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Jirongo",
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        "legal_name": "Cyrus Khwa Shakhalaga Jirongo",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise under Standing Order No.76 to make a Personal Statement in regard to what is appearing in the media today and the documents Tabled by the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs in this House yesterday. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have had a four-month encounter with the Kenya Anti- Corruption Commission (KACC). That was immediately after National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) took over the Government after the 2002 General Elections. The issues they wanted to find out from me were three. One of them was to look at all the contracts I have ever had with the Kenya Government. They perused a contract I had with the Kenyan Government involving a company in which I was the Director; Sololo Outlets Limited. After four months of thorough work, they looked at the contract we had signed to sell 400 houses to the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) at approximately Kshs3 million each, amounting to a total of Kshs1.2 billion. The houses which had actually been transferred to the NSSF were 627. They advised me to go back to the NSSF and get my 227 houses back. The second issue was to do with the payment of land rent for a property that I sold to the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI). They did insist that I had not paid land rent amounting to Kshs8 million. After a lengthy explanation, they agreed with me, and nobody ever came back to tell me that it was me who was supposed to pay the land rent on the property that I sold to KEMRI. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the third issue was to do with a letter. When I was the Minister for Rural Development, I wrote a letter to Prof. Ongeri requesting him to honour a pledge of Kshs10,000 which he had made in a harambee I had in my constituency."
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