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    "content": "It is not just the President because this Report was also tabled in the National Assembly. We have to be careful that we build institutions that work; that investigations are carried out. I hope that those investigations which they are saying will be carried out within 60 days will be carried out even in a shorter period. However, I doubt who will carry out these responsibilities of investigations if you have institutions whose credibility is already in doubt. Even the paper that is used to produce this Report can tell you that this thing is not serious. Things dealing with matters of seriousness of a crime should have been listed very well. Therefore, let us just not celebrate and say “Oh, CS stepped aside, Governor should step aside or who else should step aside.” I am speaking as a lawyer. I believe that certain standards must be preserved if we are going to have the rule of law. Finally, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are people who have argued that supposing this list was credible, should it be that the Governor should have stepped aside or all the elected leaders should step aside? I believe that there should be no discrimination. If you are a Governor and the investigation is about county money being misused, then you should step aside. However, if you are an MP and the investigation is about what you did a long time ago, when you were a Minister, you have already stepped aside. But if you are an MP and your Committee is being investigated on what they stole as a Committee, then you have to quit from that Committee. It is possible for you to step out of that Committee. However, there is a new jurisprudence in this country called “stepping aside” which must find its place in law. Unless we set the standards as Parliament, we are going to create anarchy, disorder, and negate the rule of law in this country. I note the President’s speech, but I disagree completely with the Report that came from EACC because it does not meet the standards I believe it should meet. Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir."
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