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"content": "about until they ended up giving the President a half-baked Report which is now embarrassing him. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the EACC should have done a thorough investigation conclusively before publishing the Report. This is because the moment your name appears on it, even if it is for a flimsy matter like we have seen in many cases, you become stigmatised. It is very difficult to wash yourself out of that kind of mess. Kenyans will label you “corrupt” because you are on the list of the corrupt. This is very dangerous. It will affect very many careers. In future, the EACC should do a better job than what it did. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I managed to go through the list and the Report by the EACC. There are some cases that are serious, there are some flimsy ones as I have stated. I thank Cabinet Secretaries who have paved way for investigations. Stepping aside is a way of paving way for proper and adequate investigations to be carried out on allegations made in this Report. If look at page 12, there are accusations that Charity Ngilu allegedly instructed valuers from her Ministry to over-value the pieces of land by margins of Kshs110 million. This is outright theft. If, indeed, she did that, then that is a serious and grave offence. She should be prosecuted. On page 33 of the Report, Governor Ruto is faced with allegations of accumulating immense wealth, including 40 earth movers, tippers and graders, all estimated at Kshs400 million; a helicopter, estimated at Kshs300 million and a palatial house. When such allegations are made against you, as a Governor and as an Accounting Officer in the county executive, it is only fair that you pave way for the investigators to investigate and establish how you acquired that amount of wealth. We all wake up in the morning and work so hard. Acquiring property worth of Kshs700 million in a period of one year is unheard of. I do not know how hard some people work. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, devolution was meant to benefit people in the counties. However, it is turning out to benefit just a few individuals. All of a sudden, we have come up with overnight millionaires. Such allegations must be investigated thoroughly. On page 17, there are allegations that the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Mr. Koskei secretly allocated permits to some importers to import sugar in the country without going through open tendering and against the procurement laws of Kenya and the policy under Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) rules. There are allegations that some importers are even importing from countries which is a net importer. The effect of this is that the economy of western Kenya, which thrives so much on the sugar industry, has collapsed. The sufferer is the farmer. If the Cabinet Secretary did what is alleged here, then he belongs nowhere else, but in jail. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thorough investigations should be done before people’s names are published. This is because it ends up tainting very innocent names. For example, Mr. Kavuludi is accused of not surrendering some imprest after he made some trips. This is a very small administrative matter. Mr. Kavuludi, the Chairperson of the National Police Service Commission (NPSC), should have just been requested to The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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