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    "id": 1278819,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "National Planning, who are working on a report on Telkom, of this fact. We need that report tabled in this House so that we get to know how people looted a whooping Ksh6 billion during the last two days of the previous regime. They scattered away all that money to Malaysia and Mauritius. Part of it ended up in the Cayman Islands. It is these national assets and public resources stolen by people who hold offices in Kenya that this Bill now seeks to tackle. It is to ensure that should you steal, even the Cayman Islands will no longer be safe. So, if you think you will take your money and cleanse it through what we heard people call Pandora Papers... You heard politicians say they would offer us information on the Pandora Papers in two weeks. That they would tell us how they got tens of billions of shillings carted out of this country to the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands and other safe tax havens in the world. Three years later, we have not heard a statement from the same politicians telling us how they got tens of billions of shillings invested out there. They were in leadership positions at the time and asked other people to bring foreign direct investments into this country. What a contradiction that, as leaders, you ask people to bring foreign direct investments into your country. At the same time, you are extraditing money to the Cayman Islands and other tax havens, including those in our neighbourhood. How do you even tell us that it is clean money? I do not want to name names, but we know them. People have taken money suspected to have been stolen. We are enacting these laws to ensure that no corner of the world becomes a safe haven for stolen money for people financing terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, or small arms that end up killing our people. I beg that we all support this Bill and ensure Kenya complies with the task force requirements and is a safe haven for people with legitimate and hard-earned money. Our taxes will be safe from those who have sticky fingers of taking our money to what they consider safe havens using money laundering. With those many remarks, I beg to second."
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