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    "id": 619420,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Ms.) Abdalla",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amina Ali Abdalla",
        "slug": "amina-abdalla"
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    "content": "Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wish to begin by congratulating Hon. Gumbo for producing the Report from an extremely messy process and having it tabled in the House. I am also happy that the many concerns that I had on the recommendations have been cured by the amendments. The only recommendation that I still have an issue with its wording has been overtaken by events. This is the one that is ordering the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to commence investigations. Parliament needs to ensure that we do not make recommendations that imply that we do not respect the rule of law that requires investigations to be carried out prior to prosecuting individuals. The amount of lobbying on matters canvassed in this Report actually pushed me to go and read this Report page by page. I must confess that this is the first PAC Report that I have read from page one to the end because I was perturbed that a Commission with 11 members, eight of whom are senior lawyers in this town, could be hoodwinked by one individual. I, therefore, concluded that that individual must be a fall guy. Having said that and given the fact that the DPP has already taken the recommendations by this Committee and instituted prosecution, let me stop there because that matter is now sub judice . What has perturbed me is that the threshold for integrity of public office holders is very low that you can have a Report like this and people do not get shocked. You have to steal and be caught in your House with Kshs200 million for people to get shocked. I am really concerned and shocked at what the Committee heard about these goings-on in the JSC. It was full of accusations and counter accusations, many of which have not been concluded. So, I am wondering, should I believe the accusations wholly or should I not? This is an extremely damaging Report. If we were living in a civilised society, no member of the JSC who served in this JSC during the period under review should be holding that office anymore. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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