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    "content": "As I have said in my Statement, the final report is going to take quite a while. We are still investigating drug trafficking, but we are taking into account various areas. It is also going to involve many agencies both locally and internationally. As to what is going to come out in the final report, it is extremely difficult at this particular time to be able to predict. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other thing that I want to say here is that it will be recalled by this House all these matters originated from a Personal Statement by hon. Mbuvi when he stood here to say that he had actually been followed by the police, and that he needed explanation on that. In response to that statement, I checked with the police as to why they were following him and the police made it very clear that after several attempts to ask him to go to report to them, he had failed to do so. The police had been following him on this matter because it was serious. They indicated to me that they were following him on matters related to drug trafficking; they wanted to see whether he was one of the traffickers. Mr. Speaker, Sir, having stated that, several Members of Parliament said that I had on a number of occasions prior to that refrained from bringing the names of other Members of Parliament. Since I had given the name of hon. Mbuvi, I should give the names of other Members of Parliament who were being investigated. It was even said by hon. Kilonzo that if the matter was left open, then every Member of this Parliament would be said to be a suspect. I then gave the names of the people because they were, indeed, under investigation. In stating that, I was careful to say that investigation does not mean that any hon. Member is actually guilty. That is the position; at no time did I say that because investigations were going on, hon. Mwau, hon. Kabogo, hon. Mbuvi and hon. Joho were actually guilty. I never said that. I confined myself to hon. Members, except for only one person, because that was part of the information that I had much earlier. The USA Ambassador had stated that there are five senior Government officials and one businessman, whose visas had been withdrawn; that was very clear. That was also the reason why that was announced. Hon. Members wanted to know who those senior officials and hon. Members were. We responded according to the wishes of this House. I stated those who were actually being investigated and gave the reasons why."
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