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    "id": 1279734,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "We are speaking about corruption in our county governments. Tomorrow, it will be governors who may loot our country dry. We cannot extradite them. It will be like criminals who are engaging in acts of terrorism. This morning, I got a text message from somebody in Lamu pleading for help after terrorists and criminals attacked some village and burnt a church in that county. The people financing these criminals will always find some safe haven to hide if we cannot extradite them to this country to answer to their crimes. They will easily access money to fund terrorist to carry out such atrocities. Even those who are within our country financing terrorism activities or drug abuse will go scot-free. There is nobody who launders money that is legitimately made. Anybody who is involved in money laundering is a criminal. He is, in one way or the other, involved in criminal activities. As Hon. Members, we must rise to the occasion to protect our financial system. We must protect the integrity of our country’s financial system and join the league of world nations that have enacted laws that make money laundering a crime that is extraditable. Hon. Speaker, let me take this opportunity to, once again, thank all the Members who have supported the Bill. I invite Members who may be having amendments to file them with the Table Office for consideration during the Committee of the whole House. Those Members who never got a chance to speak on the Bill can always avail themselves during the Committee of the whole House to seek a chance to comment on it. With those remarks, I beg to reply."
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