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    "id": 26847,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/26847/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kimunya",
    "speaker_title": "The Minister for Transport",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 174,
        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
        "slug": "amos-kimunya"
    },
    "content": "Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady, it is important to note that Chapter Six of the Constitution is about ethics. We have a law that governs public officer’s ethics which is scheduled to be amended to define all manner of ethics and circumstances under which a public officer and State officer may operate a bank account outside the country. It is important we appreciate that bank accounts are not opened for purposes of siphoning money out of the country. We must take into account a civil servant or a councillor or MP who has a child in school in Uganda, which is a foreign country---. I am using Uganda as an example because many Kenyans have sent their children in primary and secondary schools there. That child cannot operate a bank account. So, the parent opens a bank account there, and gives the child the pin number to access the money from Uganda. By criminalizing that, we are basically criminalizing the rights of that child to be supported by the father. So, let us be very clear between money laundering which is a crime and opening of bank accounts. Let us come with a comprehensive law that captures all those things, within the Public Officer Ethics Act. On that basis, I would like to urge the Committee to withdraw this and bring it within the comprehensive law. In any case, we are saying in sub-clause 2 that operating a bank account outside the country will be provided for in an Act of Parliament. Which other Act Parliament will be providing this? Why do we not provide it all within one"
}