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    "id": 258705,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Imanyara",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 22,
        "legal_name": "Gitobu Imanyara",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you for this opportunity. I wish to begin by thanking the Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, first, for waking up after a long sleep and doing their work extremely well, and for making recommendations worthy of support of this House. I support the recommendations of this Committee. The reasons that have been given justify the support for the Committee’s recommendations. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in addition, way back on 4th January, 2006, a distinguished Member of this House, who is now deceased, the hon. Mirugi Kariuki, wrote a letter to the District Criminal Investigations Officer (DCIO), Nakuru. The letter is dated 4th January, 2006. He delivered it to the Provincial Criminal Investigations Office, which opened Inquest File No.5 of 2006. Mr. Kariuki was asking the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to investigate a company that was working in cahoots with the AFC, where huge sums of money had been misappropriated under circumstances that showed outright fraud on the Kenyan people; the sums of money exceeded Kshs5 billion. I have that dossier here. The police investigated. They took statements from witnesses. They attempted to take statements from some of the nominees that are now being recommended to sit in the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). The police were prevented. They were unable to move. As recently as 7th June, 2011, one Andrew Nyarindo, signing for the Provincial Criminal Investigations Officer (PCIO), Nakuru, wrote to the Director of CID, a letter dated 7th June, 2011, Ref. No.CID/SECRET/4/4/P/VOL.I, and complained that the CID inquiry that Mr. Kariuki had sought had not been proceeded with. The letter is"
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