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    "id": 40046,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Mr. Raila",
    "speaker_title": "The Prime Minister",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Raila Amolo Odinga",
        "slug": "raila-odinga"
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    "content": "Prime Minister what is called the Delivery Unit and the EMU falls under that Delivery Unit. We take them where there are problems of provision of services; where there is inefficiency. They do not investigate fraud. So, in the Government, we have got Internal Audit Departments in each and every Ministry. There is another Audit department in the Treasury which supervises all these other Internal Audit Departments. Mr. Koech said that KACC described this as a Public Relations exercise. I am not aware. His concern is that some of these officers were merely transferred. He wanted to know what steps would be taken to ensure that these officers do not frustrate investigations. That is the reason why we have directed KACC and the CID to move with speed to ensure that all these officers, who were involved, are immediately taken to court, so that they do not remain in the system where they can continue to frustrate investigations. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you will realize that the Report I have tabled here has got names of people together with the amount of money that they embezzled. So, there is really no need for any further investigation. There has been sufficient investigation carried out. All that is required now is prosecution. What we are talking about is that we should not just begin with the small fish. There is always the tendency to begin from the bottom and leave the other people. Our instructions are that this should start from the top going downwards. Mr. Mwathi was concerned that with so much loss, some of the programmes of the Government might collapse or might not continue to be operated. Steps have been taken to ensure that there is no disruption of services of the Government which were supposed to be funded. For example, the donor governments have decided to now forward money directly to the schools for the time being as we continue to deal with these issues of integrity in the Ministry of Education. The money is actually going down to the schools, so that the programmes are not interrupted at all."
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