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    "content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I finish, I also remind my colleagues that the President was very clear when he spoke about corruption. There are those who are wont to lynch Members of Parliament (MPs) and Cabinet Secretaries for no apparent reason other than jealousy. There are people who will always be very happy to hear that those at the top can be brought down. However, if you look at the President’s Speech on page 56, he reiterated that. He said: “It is not my place to determine the guilt or otherwise of any of the people mentioned in the said Report.” So, it is important for us to make sure that we do not go on the rampage, condemning individuals simply because they have been listed here. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the USA, there is a very famous senator called Senator McCarthy who led a mission to blacklist innocent people for no other reason, other than they had personal differences. He wanted them to be assumed or accused of communism. Once accused, you are assumed to be guilty. It is important for us to appreciate that there are those who will be guilty according to this document. However, there are those whom investigations will prove them guilty. If they are, then the law must take its own course. However, it is important for us to make it very clear that, at the moment, the document reads that the person is alleged to have done something. It says that investigations are going on. It does not, at any one time, say that a certain individual is guilty. Not one sentence in this document condemns an individual and says that a certain person is and has been proven guilty. It is important that Kenyans also treat the document in the same vein and know that these are simply allegations. We hope that those who are not guilty will go back to their offices and continue serving Kenyans. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I beg to support."
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