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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. From the outset I want to congratulate Dr. Khalwale for seizing the moment and bringing this legislation for us to deal with it because in the last three, four, five or six years we did experience daylight robbery of some individuals who exploited the poverty level within our country to do nothing else other than enrich themselves. Nobody was spared from this because we saw the churches doing it. We saw pastors doing the same thing and pastors talking to their members or their followers who had a lot of faith and trust in them. We actually saw pastors misusing that faith to the point where their followers gave them a lot of money. As others have said before, we now can see around the country people who continue enriching themselves from the money that they collected from Kenyans who were just trying to make ends meet and looking for ways to invest. For Dr. Khalwale to bring an Act of Parliament to ensure that this kind of theft does not happen again in this country, it is something that we must commend him for. While moving the Bill he did mention to us the case of Murdoch who may have been the one who tutored those within our country. When they caught up with him in America, he was put behind bars for life. In our country, we still have those individuals walking around. As the hon. Member who has just spoken said, many of them are actually eying political power. So, I am sure that we will have a few of them in the Senate. Others may end up being"
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