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    "id": 253962,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Murungi",
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        "legal_name": "Kiraitu Murungi",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Committee further says that further investigation is required to establish my interference with the Judiciary as a whole, including the appointment of Mr. Tobiko, a counsel in one of the cases, and the removal of special magistrates for corruption cases. If you look at this Report as a whole, you will not see any evidence at all or any allegation made to show that I interfered with the Judiciary, or indeed, I was involved in the appointment of Mr. Tobiko or the removal of a magistrate. So, this is a conclusion which is not supported by evidence. We feel that the Committee could have done a better job if they could have pointed at the evidence and implicated me directly, instead of arriving at a conclusion which is not supported by facts. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am aware that one of the witnesses who appeared before this Committee was the former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Mr. Murgor. Mr. Murgor had his own bone to pick with his successor, Mr. Tobiko. He did not tell the Committee that he was relieved of his duties because of mishandling the Delamere case. The pretence that he was involved in the Anglo Leasing investigation is neither here nor there. The Committee should not have accepted such evidence, which was just meant to settle a score between him and his successor. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said earlier, I am already being investigated by the Kenya Anti- Corruption Commission (KACC) regarding the allegations that I interfered with investigations into the Anglo Leasing matters. So, I do not mind the recommendation being made in this Report that I be investigated regarding my interference with investigations of the Anglo Leasing projects, because I am already being investigated. So, the Committee is recommending that what is already being done, be done! This does not affect me in any way! I welcome the investigation and I do not mind the recommendation because I am already being investigated."
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