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    "id": 182400,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/182400/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ojode",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 197,
        "legal_name": "Joshua Orwa Ojode",
        "slug": "joshua-ojode"
    },
    "content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, on 16th October, 2008, hon. Mithika Linturi, the hon. Member of Parliament for Igembe South Constituency, stood on a point of order and demanded a Ministerial Statement from the Minister of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security on the alleged presence of Rwandan fugitive, Felicien Kabuga in Kenya. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to give a response to all the allegations made by the hon. Member as contained in the HANSARD Report of that particular day. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mr. Felicien Kabuga is a Rwandan national who is alleged to have played a leading role in the Rwandan Genocide. He is a wanted person by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for the allegation. Mr. Kabuga visited the country in the year 1994 and, while on holiday, mysteriously disappeared. After his indictment in 1999 by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Government set in motion a mechanism to track him down and arrest him. Since then, the search has been on-going, but no arrest of the fugitive has taken place. Mr. Speaker, Sir, since the Government stepped up its search for the fugitive, we have received a lot of un-substantiated information about his associates and businesses, all of which have turned out to be false. In its endeavour to capture the fugitive, the Government formed a joint six-member investigative team with officers drawn from the Kenya Police and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in 2007. The investigating team interviewed persons and received several intelligence reports on the whereabouts of Mr. Kabuga. All that intelligence information turned out to be negative. For instance, one person interviewed in Mtwapa claimed that Mr. Kabuga had bought a"
}