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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on pages 13 to 14 of the Report, Ambassador Muthaura, the Head of the Civil Service, and Mr. Dave Mwangi, who was then Permanent Secretary in the Office of the President, told Mr. Githongo that they were prepared to deal with the issue of Anglo Leasing administratively. This was a message to Mr. Githongo that his investigations were not in the interest of the Government because the two could deal with the matter administratively. When a civil servant speaks like that, especially these two, administratively essentially means fudging the law. A civil servant can fudge the law by pretending to apply the law to the latter, but circumventing the issues that need to be dealt with. Indeed, in a lot of presentations from the other side of the House in defence of Anglo Leasing and the actions taken by Government Ministers, most of the presentations, I would like to admit, are a fudge of the law. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on 5th April, 2005, while submitting the status report on the Anti- Corruption Agenda on the Government of Kenya, the Director of the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) is on record on that date of arguing that he had investigated the infamous Anglo Leasing matter on the CID Forensic Science Laboratories and the terrorist passport systems April 18, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 497 to conclusion. This is on record in black and white. I have tabled the document here. Investigating a matter to conclusion means that you have determined the people who were involved, you have taken them to court and you are convinced that no other person is involved in the matter but those taken to court. However, we realised, just last week when I was reading the newspapers, that Anglo Leasing Finance Limited was being investigated by the KACC. When the former Minister for Finance went to the KACC, he was asked a question that I asked last year, and which is: \"How could you involve yourself in a company on which the Government had not done due diligence?\" Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the letter that Mr. Ojode was referring to, dated 29th May, 2004, that was written as a memo to His Excellency the President by the Minister for Finance says quite clearly at the end, that:- \"Since the project is delayed and no work has commenced; that is with regard to the forensic laboratories affair, from the time the agreement was signed, I recommend that we establish who Anglo Leasing and Finance Limited are, and negotiate for the termination of the agreement.\" Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the meantime, we did not know who Anglo Leasing Finance Limited was, but to this entity, loads and loads of dollars were paid out."
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