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    "id": 1485719,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1485719/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Mwengi Mutuse",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Eckomas Mwengi Mutuse",
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    "content": "Under the ground number seven, our allegation is that there are serious reasons to believe that His Excellency, Rigathi Gachagua, has committed crimes under Section 45(1), 46, 47(a) (3) and 48(1) of the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act, as well as Sections 2, 3, 4, and 7 of the Proceeds of Crime and Money Laundering Act. In short, during the short period that I was doing research on this Motion, I have come across properties that are registered in the name of the Deputy President, or in the name of his children, or other proxies, that run cumulatively to a value of about Kshs5.2 billion. There is no clear trace of where the money is to purchase those properties came from. Therefore, under the Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act, qualify to be unexplained assets. Secondly, I have also listed companies that are associated with the Deputy President; 22 of them. These companies when you look at the objects and purposes, they are all the same. It is our theory and evidence that these companies have been used for money laundering. Similarly, I have also listed companies that have been transacting with the office of the Deputy President held by the Deputy President His Excellency Rigathi Gachagua, with tremendous respect. They are being paid from that office and we have laid ground for serious reasons to believe that these companies are actually conduits for corruption and that political responsibility, even when he is not the accounting officer, rests with the highest order of that office. That is the case we are making here. We shall be showing the connection between the properties and His Excellency Rigathi Gachagua. In the case of unexplained assets, it is upon the person to show where they got the money to buy the assets. We have evidence that the assets belong to him."
}