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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as usual, I was to table the document after referring to it. So, I do not think there is anything unusual about it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, by 29th May, 2004, we did not really know who Anglo Leasing Finance Limited was. However, in November, 2003, US$1,922,22.22 had been paid out to the same firm. In March, 2004, just before Anglo Leasing was declared to be unknown, another US$1,922,22.22 was paid out. Unless the Kenyan Government is so rich and collected so much revenue that it paid out money without knowing who it was paying it to, then somebody must own up to some fudging of the system somewhere. Mr. Deputy Speaker, it raises a lot of curiosity that this memo only came up after Mr. Maore reported the matter to the House in April, 2004. This means that it is this House and not the commitment on the other side to fight corruption that made it possible finally for the Minister to tell the President that they were paying loads of money to an entity that apparently they did not know. If we were to manage Government finances prudently, it is our responsibility to ascertain that we can account for every single cent we pay to anybody, if called upon to do so. If it is in the interests of Kenyans, then they are entitled to know who received every single cent from the Exchequer. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in fact, the whole of page 15 refers to the arrest of a lawyer called Mr. Ojiambo. Mr. Ojiambo was arrested because he refused to obey summons of the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission (KACC), who wanted to know why he had put an advertisement in the Kenyan newspapers on a company called Anglo Leasing and Finance Company Limited, which the Government was investigating. The KACC called upon Mr. Ojiambo to report to it, so that they could know this creature called Anglo Leasing and Finance Company Limited. Somewhere in that page the Report says: \"Hon. Mwiraria then said that he has spoken to His Excellency the President and he felt that it was the President's view that they should now go easy on the matter since the money had been returned. Hon Murungi walked in and said the same thing. 498 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 18, 2006 Hon. Mwiraria, in his testimony, admitted that he was not interested in following up on Anglo Leasing and Finance Company Limited beyond the recovery of the money\". Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to raise some very fundamental questions. Was Anglo Leasing and Finance Company being given an amnesty because the money had been returned? Was the Government not interested in getting to the bottom of the matter, so as to avoid any future occurrence of such matters, simply because the money had been returned?"
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