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    "id": 247517,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I appreciate the hon. Minister's statement. But I would like to add the following. These two gentlemen have been driving in Nairobi with cars without number plates since the beginning of the year. That is a crime in this country. Secondly, these people have been bringing goods into this country without proper procedure. If you ask anybody at the airport, and we have friends there, these two gentlemen have been importing parcels into this country very regularly without proper procedure. These parcels are alleged to be either counterfeit money or dugs. Because very many strange things were found in these people's house, it is not far from the truth that they were so given to behaving with impunity that they could actually import drugs and counterfeit money into this country, jeopardising the security of our airports and this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mr. George Muhoho has been doing a very good job to improve the airport. Those of us who travel through that airport regularly knowing that since he was appointed, we have seen improvements. Indeed, if you talk to our partners in the world, they will tell you that Jomo Kenyatta International Airport has been improving on a daily basis. It takes two individuals, coming from we-do-not-know-where, with names we have never heard of, to come into this country and ridicule our international airport with impunity. These June 13, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1301 people drove out of the airport at breakneck speed, contrary to the traffic rules of this country. These people further went out of this country without their passports being stamped, contrary to immigration laws. Mr. Speaker, Sir, is the Minister aware that these so-called Armenians have been receiving these parcels through the airport illegally? Is the Minister further aware that there are many more shadowy characters in this country? The two so-called Armenians were being defended by the Government, but there are some we do not know about who are going to emerge one of these days, perhaps shooting their ways out of our hospitals. This is a very serious matter. Every public utility in this country is in danger of the Margaryans and Sargasyan whom we do not know about. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in my humble opinion, therefore, rather than let the Executive investigate the Executive, the Executive should be humble enough and give this House the responsibility of forming a Select Committee to investigate the Executive. Whether you like it or not, let us not hide the truth. The highest echelon of this Government is compromised. You cannot expect that highest echelon to be a judge in his or her own case. It, therefore, makes a lot of sense for the Minister and his appointees to be humble enough to allow the august House to establish a Select Committee to look into this matter. I rest my case."
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