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    "content": "acres of land in Tigoni; preliminary.” It says “there was a Chief of Staff called Maryanne Keitany who is accused of misusing Kshs100 million meant for legislative affairs; used to mobilize MPs in their abortive campaign of July, 2014, to impeach powerful Cabinet Minister, Anne Waiguru.” Honestly, Kshs100million used to mobilise the impeachment of a Cabinet Secretary (CS)? Where is the list of the Members of Parliament (MPs) who were paid this Kshs100million because bribe takers must also be in that list? As I said last week, and everybody was calling me names here; I spoke very well and I told the Senate Minority Leader that, we, as a country, must not start this attitude of mob justice, mass lynching and calling people names just for the sake of it. Chapter 4 of the Constitution talks about presumption of innocence and the rights of everybody who is accused. It even says that the list of the things that someone is accused of must be furnished to him or her. If we continue in this country with this process of having the EACC or even any Senator or any Member of the National Assembly, who uses rumour mongering to fight corruption, then we are going nowhere. We will be waking up any morning that one mentions somebody’s name and we say that, that person is guilty. We have become a country of mob justice and mass lynching. This country lacks the most fundamental issue for Constitutional order which is called the rule of law. The rule of law requires that you have an institution like EACC that is led by men and women of integrity who are capable to carry out credible investigations. They are capable to adopt reports independently and will stand against Parliament and the President and say “we will not submit a report that is not conclusive, has no facts, does not observe human rights and inform those who are being accused of what they ought to do.” If you will be fighting corruption like this, in another two, three or four months, corruption will just be like a joke. If you say that someone is corrupt, it will be like saying someone is drinking water because the standards we are setting are too low. This is because we have already accused, charged, found everybody guilty and even hanged them. What is remaining now is basically just for us to go for rallies and say “Sen. Orengo, Sen. Muthama and CS so and so are corrupt, even for people who have never read anything.” This is a country of rumour mongering. When you hear somebody’s name was in a newspaper, you make conclusions. This affects both those who are in the Opposition and in the Government. If you want to create a country that is based on the rule of law, we must have that foundation. I even heard other people saying “Oh, the list is not credible because it does not capture people of a certain political party or people of a particular tribe.” Did you want a list of corrupt persons to have ethnic and regional balance?"
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