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"speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang-Nyong’o",
"speaker_title": "The Minister for Medical Services",
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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to make a Personal Statement in the House. On 19th October this year at around 11.20 a.m., in the morning, one of my personal assistants in my private office, Mr. Justus Okoth, went to collect letters from the Post Office, Box No.57103-00200, which is located at City Square here in the City. Mr. Okoth noticed that the lock was loose and informed the person who was at Counter 7. He was told to get a letter from the owner who is myself. Since I was not around, he told my personal assistant, Mr. Peter Nyagaya, who wrote the letter and gave it to him. On the 24th October, 2011, the same Okoth went to the post office armed with a copy of the letter and a copy of my identification card. He processed the letter at the counter which is located above the post office where they put letters. They looked at all the documents at the post office and told the young man to proceed to open Box No.57103-00200 at City Square. When he opened the box, he found that a strange person had already opened the box and was putting the letters in a bag. He asked this fellow who he was and why he was opening that box number which was not his, and which belonged to me. The fellow told him that his name was Duncan Mwangi and that he had been sent by a lady called Catherine. When my assistant called the security people who investigate these matters at the post office, he said the same thing that he had been sent by a Ms. Catherine. They waited for Catherine who never turned up. At about 3.00 p.m. a tall man came and confronted my assistant. When the matter was unravelled by the police officer, whose name was Migwi John, of force No.52604, they told my assistant that they had been sent by the Deputy OCPD to pick my assistant and the man who had opened my post office box and take them to the Central Police Station. Mr. Speaker, Sir, a Mr. Bandika, who was in charge, called the Deputy OCPD and then told my assistant to proceed to the police station. While all this was happening, nothing else was done in terms of recording a statement at the police station, and it appeared to my assistant that the people at the OCPD’s office were in the process of covering up this very important matter, of somebody else opening my post office box at City Square. When they reached the OCPD’s office, he was told that the information was needed by a Mr. Macharia from the National Security Intelligence Service (NSIS). That was when a Mr. Bandika told my assistant that the whole story about why this guy was caught at the post office box with the keys was a matter that they could not handle. I was informed of that incident by my assistant personally, because I was abroad on 25th October. I would like the police and officers in charge to take up this matter very seriously, because we knew those tactics during the repressive or previous regime, and I would not like them to occur again. It is known that if the NSIS wants information from anybody these days it is much better to tap phones or emails. We communicate more by phones and emails. So, when they go to the post office box, the only thing I can conclude is that somebody wanted to get one of the letters and put a letter bomb, which is very lethal. As we know, we live at a time when bombs are scaring things and that incident, where the police have refused to take statements from my assistant and personal assistant and yet the person was caught red-handed taking letters from my post office box, is something very serious and I want it to go on record."
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