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    "id": 253958,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Murungi",
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, even on 20th January, 2006, there was a report in the Daily Nation, saying that the Githongo report had incontrovertible evidence, which was good enough to sustain a charge against me. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have been made to suffer severe personal pain and anguish. I have also been forced to pay every political cost by the media without a fair hearing and without due process of the law. We should not allow McCarthysm to creep into our society, under the guise of fighting corruption. During the days of Senator McCarthy in the 1950s in the USA, all you needed to say is that someone was a communist, and without any evidence, the person would lose his or her job or find himself or herself in jail. This form of public lynching and labelling must stop if we are to genuinely address the issue of corruption. We should not repeat the trial of Jesus Christ in this country. The mere fact that there was a mob saying: \"Crucify him! Crucify him!\", did not mean that the man was guilty. We should evaluate evidence and see whether, indeed, the person is guilty or not. It is not time for leaders to wash hands like Pontius Pilate did, even after being convinced that the man had done nothing. Let us follow proper legal procedures and due process in all investigations of corrupt cases. We are not afraid of being investigated. We welcome the investigations. If after due process, and after proper investigations have been done, Kiraitu Murungi is found to have been involved in Anglo Leasing, then he should be taken to court. If the court finds me guilty and takes me to Kamiti, I will be ready to eat ugali like any other person. However, let me not be tried and convicted by The Standard and the Daily Nation newspapers. Let me be tried by a proper court. It was very painful for me when I woke up one Sunday morning and saw the picture of my mother on the front page of the Sunday Standard . A team of journalists had travelled all the way to Meru, to my village, to ask my mother about Anglo Leasing. What does the old woman know about Anglo Leasing? Please, if you want my blood, take it but leave my mother out of this issue."
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