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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Ruteere",
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        "legal_name": "Silas Muriuki Ruteere",
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    "content": "Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to second this Motion. My able Chairman, Mr. Mutava Musyimi, has given the background and the in depth summary of the Report, which is very detailed and has exhaustively dealt with all the allegations that were presented by Mr. Mwangi Kiunjuri, the Assistant Minister for Public Works. I am a Member of that Committee that was investigating the alleged corruption. I was privy to all the hearings, except very few. So, what has been said by my Chairman is very true. I want only to summarize the sequence of events. Before embarking on evidence analysis, observations and recommendations, the Committee wishes to offer a chronology of events. I believe that revolves around the whole issue of alleged corruption in the Ministry and its agents. In particular, we need to establish whether the motive of the allegations by the former Assistant Minister and actions taken by the Minister do have any relevance to the inquiry. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the hon. Charity Ngilu, EGH, MP, Minister for Water and Irrigation, was appointed in April 2008 to the Ministry of Water and Irrigation. The hon. Mwangi Kiunjuri, MGH, MP, was appointed an Assistant Minister in the same Ministry in April 2008. That is, they were appointed at the same time. He served in this capacity until 18th October 2010 when he was transferred to the Ministry in which he is currently, the Ministry of Public Works. The WASREB Report was launched in March 2010, and was received by the Ministry in April 2010. It took almost a month for this Report to be done. The Report was used by both the Minister and Assistant Minister either to take action or to raise the allegations."
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