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    "id": 459573,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Chepkong’a",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga",
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    "content": "Hon. Speaker, we also received a resolution duly signed by the Chair, JSC in charge of the Finance and Administration Committee that was extracted on 26th September, 2013 that was supposed to be taken to the Anti-Banking Fraud Unit and it reads as follows: “Committee Resolution: The Committee deliberated on the matter and having considered the management report resolved that the judicial staff being held in police custody in relation to the fraud should not be charged in court until investigations being undertaken are complete and the JSC is fully briefed.” Hon. Speaker, that information was sent to the police. As you are aware, the JSC employs magistrates, High Court Judges, Court of Appeal Judges and also the Supreme Court Judges. To send a letter to the police stopping them from executing their duties, the Committee found that that communication together with the appearance of the Deputy Chief Registrar and the Director of Finance requesting for the release of those persons, to have been in contravention of Article 245(4) which states that: “…no person may give a direction to the Inspector-General with respect to the investigation of any particular offence or offences, the enforcement of the law against any particular person or persons---”"
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