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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kenyatta",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have witnessed many charged before courts of law with some of what we are discussing today. However, the truth of the matter and actually the reason I believe that this House in its wisdom chose to reject the last Report is that we found it difficult to believe that this could have taken place with some junior civil servants and some unknown businessmen being the culprits. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Committee notes that that third leg in the stool; the third leg that was missing in the first Report, was provided by Mr. John Githongo in his evidence. In his evidence which I shall elaborate on a little further, Mr. Githongo made it abundantly clear to us that all along there were indeed those within Government who knew of a lot of the issues that before us and before Kenyans we were consistently told no information was available. It was clear to us as a April 5, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 381 Committee that the businessmen behind some of these contracts were well-known to members in Government. It was clear to us that those individuals were indeed in league with senior members of Government. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to give a bit more details as to exactly how these kind of scams were taking place by giving a detailed description especially on the one before us which is the passport issuing project. As you will notice, all the other projects that fall under the guise of security, first and foremost, started with identifying a need. There had to be a need. As opposed to trying to satisfy that need, what seems to have happened is that the need was used to create a project. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if I may refer back to the Report, it may be noted that in a letter dated 18th October, 2001."
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