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    "speaker_name": "Mr. M. Kilonzo",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs",
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        "legal_name": "Mutula Kilonzo",
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    "content": " Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will be very brief! The questions and issues posed by the hon. Member are clear; therefore, I will not bother repeating them, except to say that under Section 7 of the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act, the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) is mandated to receive complaints from the public of acts of corruption, investigate the complaints, make recommendations to the Attorney-General where investigations reveal a crime has been committed, educate the public and advise heads of public bodies. As is law enforcement and examined practices and procedures of public bodies, the fact that most of the allegations in the public domain about the non-performance of this institution are very serious. Indeed, they arise from several issues, but today because I am going to table this, it is fair that I say to this House that as a result of the Commission’s work, it has recommended the actual prosecution of eight Cabinet Ministers, four Members of Parliament, seven chairmen of boards of State corporations, 11 permanent secretaries, 65 directors and chief executives of public institutions. As a result, more than 498 criminal cases have been investigated with 382 being recommended for prosecution, 247 criminal cases are in court, 398 civil cases have been filed for the recovery of public assets and 16 of the recovery cases are against current and former Members of Parliament. Properties worth more than Kshs4.5 billion have been recovered including the Grand Regency and Karura Forest. With regard to Anglo Leasing, it is important to point out that KACC has completed local aspects of investigations and has forwarded files to the Attorney-General recommending the prosecution of those involved. The Attorney-General, however, returned the files to KACC for the conclusion of the international aspect and this afternoon, I will table the correspondence between the Office of the Attorney-General, the British Government and the American Government showing that it is, in fact, those governments that have not assisted the work of KACC."
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