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    "content": "Therefore, I do not know why anybody is celebrating. For me, this Report would be a winning formula if this was an election year. If you want to know how selective justice is, look at this Report on page 20 and the annexure and how it attempts to cover up where it talks about the IIEC. Everywhere else in the Report, they mention names but when it comes to allegations that have been substantively proven in other jurisdictions which only require prosecution, they say that allegations of those officials of the defunct IIEC were bribed to offer contracts to Smith and Ouzman, a UK based firm. The bribes are alleged to have been given by the firm through a local agent by the names Trevy James and Oyombra. They do not have names on the names column and yet they know who these people who are alleged to have taken bribes are. They could have simply listed them like every other allegation. It is Isaac Hassan, James Oswago, Davis Chirchir and Shollei. This Report is a deliberate scam. This is testimony to the fact that this purge was simply a public relations gimmick. I was in a commission and the commission must set certain benchmarks or a threshold upon which they can reasonably say that they have reason to believe that Senator or governor so-and-so is corrupt. This was part of a public relations gimmick that was intended to carry headlines for a few days. If anything, we have been bold in corruption and we know that the intensity of this work and allocate 60 days for its completion upon which all these persons will be trooping back to office without any validation of any of these claims or allegations against them. I feel greatly pained that a President, without the diligence required in his office, will tend to act in a manner as to simply gain cheap political capital at the expense of dealing with the endemic vice in this country that has cost billions of shillings of taxpayers’ money. I also hold the view that has been held by the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD), that there are architects of corruption who are well known. In judicial language, we say “judicial notice” who do not appear in this list. Therefore, as the Jubilee Administration wants to credit itself as a good start; I say it was never a start at all because I trust, to save credibility, they would bundle a few people to court in the next couple of months or weeks. That would be showing that there is really action that has taken place. In fact, the allegations against the National Police Service Chair, where they said that he simply failed to account for money, in other words, to submit an imprest. If you fail to submit an imprest, they simply take it from your salary. What kind of corruption allegations is the President tabling before Parliament?"
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