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    "id": 49185,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Dr. Oburu",
    "speaker_title": "The Assistant Minister, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 194,
        "legal_name": "Oburu Ngona Odinga",
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    "content": "The four accused persons were taken to court and while the case was still going on they went to the High Court and made application for a stay order, barring the trial court from proceeding with the case. The High Court directed that the case be stayed until it gave a ruling. The duplicate file was forwarded to the Attorney-General, who called for it. In this case, no accounts were frozen and no bank accounts were investigated. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Silvia Investments, which is the second case, and which was investigated, the complainant was S. T. Wainaina and Family Bank and the accused was Charles Waweru Chege. The case was taken to the Kibera Court and the accused pleaded guilty to the offence. He was fined Kshs50,000 in default or 12 months imprisonment, and the court ordered that all the deposits be released to the investors whose money was in account No.31558 in the Family Bank. The third case was DECI Capacity Building Entrepreneurship. The complainant was Felix Malba Mumo, c/o Equity Bank Ltd. The accused, George Odinga Donde, was charged with the offence of carrying out a business without a licence contrary to Section 3(1). Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have tabulated all the accounts which were there. The conclusion was that the case was subsequently withdrawn by the Attorney-General. The case was not determined. The accused went ahead and withdrew all the more than Kshs11 million which was in the accounts. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Report of the Task Force on Pyramid Schemes under the chairmanship of Hon. Francis Nyenze was tabled in Parliament by the Minister for Co- operative Development and Marketing and Parliament is yet to provide a way forward on the same. In any case, hon. Members are privy to the contents of the said Report and asking the Minister for Finance about the names of the individuals suspected to have been involved in the collapsed pyramid schemes, whose names have been mentioned in the Report is contrary to the provisions of the Standing Orders. Thank you."
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