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    "id": 207129,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kajwang",
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        "legal_name": "Gerald Otieno Kajwang",
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    "content": "If one of those Commissioners is lucky to become the Attorney-General, I am sure he or she will oppose this. But there is something wrong with our Attorney-General! He is supposed to be the advisor of the Government. He never even advises the Government that he has a lot of powers under Section 26. Such powers cannot be taken over by some officers of Government or Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC)! If we intended to give those powers to the Commission, we would have done that. But this Parliament said no. The Commission also needs to be checked. Otherwise, it can run amok and destroy this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was saying that the Attorney-General needs to do a few things, which are very serious. But he is not doing those things. He is not dealing with glaring corruption. Let me give this House and example. There is a bank in this country called Equity Bank. It is a huge bank by any standards. After only four years, it grew from a small thing to a multi-national bank. One of the directors of that bank wrote to the management and the Chairman of the bank and asked them a few questions. The director is called Ms. Wanjiku Mugane. She asked the following question: \"There is corruption going on in our bank.\" She wrote a letter and said: \"The shareholding in this bank is contrary to the rules of the Banking Act.\" There is one individual called Mr. James Mwangi, who owns more than five per cent as authorised---"
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