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    "id": 332325,
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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kabogo",
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        "legal_name": "William Kabogo Gitau",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am gifted in seeing frustrated Ministers. The Minister has come to this House on this matter of Charterhouse Bank and the Banking Act several times. He has even thrown the matter to the Speaker and said; let the Speaker rule. I am sure if he was to stand there and tell the House the truth, he would say he is equally frustrated. This is a Minister who wants to tell the House things as they are. But for some reason because of the big brother syndrome that is the problem in CBK, he is not able to tell the House that we will not give you this information because it is a shame in as far as Charterhouse Bank is concerned. So, really, you must find this Minister in contempt of various rulings of your Chair where you have asked him to bring information to the House. This is not a House of kangaroos; this is a House of the Republic of Kenya. We are asking for information from the State. As you have said, Section 35 guarantees a Kenyan, not the Kenyan Parliament, but a citizen’s right to information. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is the time to bite. This Minister ought to go back and bring this information to the House and tell us the real truth why Charterhouse Bank is closed because that is the bone of contention. This is the issue they do not want to bring to the public. If you were looking at him a few minutes ago, you would have seen the Minister who caused the problem in Charterhouse giving him information, trying to guide him on how he would deal with this matter. So, let us call a spade a spade. Mr. Githae finds himself in a tight situation. Could the Chair help him get out of this problem?"
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