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    "id": 253585,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Prof. Anyang'-Nyong'o",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 193,
        "legal_name": "Peter Anyang' Nyong'o",
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    "content": "What stops the Government from issuing letters rogatory, however difficult it is to issue them? It could, indeed, hire an expatriate to prepare them for it, if it cannot prepare them. What stops the Government from issuing letters rogatory for Mr. Keterring to appear before KACC, so that we can get the truth about the Anglo Leasing Affair? I know for certain that the American Government will be more than willing to receive letters rogatory and act on them. But the letters rogatory cannot be written on the other side, and so the stone must remain unturned. On the issue of resource mobilisation, I must confess that I totally believed in my President. I must confess that I totally believed that we were committed to fulfilling the objectives of Economic Recovery Strategy, which my former Ministry championed. I must confess that I travelled around the world with my friend, hon. Kituyi, promoting investments into this country. But in June, 2005, when I was in Germany, following an invitation by the Chancellor, to prepare with the Germans for the Gleaneagles conference, and as I was speaking about my country, the boss of Transparency International embarrassed me by saying that a Kenyan Minister who joined the Government with a commitment to fight corruption could not stand there and defend a Government that was corrupt. So, during dinner we got together and I asked him why he had told me that. Of course, I defended myself gallantly, as you would expect. He revealed to me that it had been revealed to him by an hon. Minister of the Government then, who knows himself, that Anglo Leasing Affair was a Government project and His Excellency the President knew about it. I was dumbfounded. It was then, that I went to see Mr. Githongo to find out more about Anglo Leasing. When I found out more, I was deeply hurt that I should have been taken down the lane of untruths and deceit; that, in defence of my Government---"
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