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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Angatia",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Ayub Savula Angatia",
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    "content": "Hon. Deputy Speaker, we would like this matter to be investigated properly. Furthermore, this issue should be subjected to the Powers and Privilege Committee of the House, so that we can know what happened. What is happening to this House? This is an allegation that an officer in the Office of the Deputy President and a Cabinet Secretary are fighting using Members of the National Assembly. We will not allow it. We want to know the truth. When I go to Lugari, my constituents say that I was bribed. They say that we failed to remove the Cabinet Secretary because we were given Kshs100 million. The image of this House is at stake. This is not a joke! The Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission has indicated that the matter is still under preliminary investigation. Why do you submit this report to the House when the matter is still under preliminary investigation? In the public court, the view is that the Members of Parliament who signed that Petition were paid to do what they did. Secondly, on the issue of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co- operatives, I would like the Speaker to invoke the provisions of the Standing Order No.107, so that an individual who is alleged to have been involved in allegations of bribery substantiates or apologises. I am the one who tabled a banking slip of Kshs4 million in the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives when investigations were going on. I requested the Committee to investigate the matter because I had received a complaint through my Personal Assistant, who brought me the banking slip. The Chairman of the Committee has admitted that he received the Kshs4 million, but he substantiated that the money was proceeds from his transport business. I withdrew the matter and apologised. Later, another Member of the Committee came and alleged that the Kshs4 million was part of Kshs60 million that was given to the Members of the Committee. I would like this matter to be investigated seriously. We have been lumped together in the Report by the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission and yet, I was the whistle-blower. This matter should be investigated, so that the name of the Committee is cleaned."
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