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    "id": 1485562,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Elisha Ongoya",
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    "content": "Good people, Crystal Limited was not even a bidder for that tender. He pressurized people to award it to somebody who is not even a bidder for that tender. I observed it will move from the false through the ridiculous to the embarrassing. Those of us who understand this Motion for what it is understand why these panel beating manoeuvres are being tried here. The Motion as presented and approved by the National Assembly will remain in our constitutional history as the most embarrassing Motion ever approved by a House of Parliament in the Commonwealth. We respectfully submit. You will be told at paragraph 58 that His Excellency is reasonably suspected to be the principal beneficiary of what are called dubious transactions by Lusona Events Ltd. You will then go to the allegations on Lusona Events Ltd and you will want to see those transactions, how are they terminating to the Deputy President? You will not come across any connection. They will just say a director of this company withdrew some money from his own company, the Deputy President is not a director and none of his family members are directors. That person withdrew money from his company and bought a motor vehicle in his own name. The Mover will say; I am, therefore, drawing a reasonable conclusion that the Deputy President is the beneficiary of this. Good people, the word “reasonable” has meaning known to law. I submit very respectfully that this falls short of the definition of the word reasonable suspicion. I submit it actually gravitates towards unreasonable suspicion. Now let us look at this. You will be told that His Excellency has acquired 40 acres of land in Kakuret, Kamburaini in Nyeri. Evidence before you will show that this is land that the Deputy President, in fact, bought from a current Member of the National Assembly. So, he knows that Member; in 2015, before he even joined State office as an MP. You are told that the purchase of this land in 2015 shows that in the last two years the Deputy President has amassed immense wealth. I began by saying let us be elementarily decent. One of the most frustrating things about preparing for such a hopelessly conceptualized, hopelessly crafted and hopelessly presented case is that you begin doubting yourself because you begin wondering what am I not seeing? Land bought from a sitting Member of the National Assembly in the year 2015, is supposed to be evidence that in the last two years, His Excellency Rigathi Gachagua has amassed immense wealth from the office of the Deputy President to acquire that property. Let us look at paragraph 45(g). You will be told that His Excellency has acquired 80 acres of land in Meru County. No land registration number is provided. Not even an affidavit of a neighbor who says: “I know he has this land. He is my neighbour.” Just an allegation by the Mover of this Motion like that. The Swahili say; “ Ukistaajabu ya Musa, utaona ya Firauni.” This Mover of this Motion stood before the National Assembly and said, “just believe me for this statement as it is.” That was the first joke. The second joke was that the National Assembly actually believed him and approved the Motion. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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