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    "id": 644569,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/644569/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. (Dr.) Nyongesa",
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    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Paul Nyongesa Otuoma",
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    "content": "Ten days later, you find that big transactions have been carried out. The banks will come to these Committees and say how they are not even aware of such kind of things. You call it inside job, but as somebody was putting it, some of this is just deliberate theft and these people are still walking around free. For example, the case of Dubai and Chase banks, this is already in public domain. We questioned some of these people about their financial diligence under oath and they lied to this great National Assembly. They lied and they are still walking free. Somebody is still saying that they need to be investigated yet this is somebody who has come to this House and lied under oath on the status of their banks and they still want to go back and work for those banking institutions. In my view, the Government must take it seriously that when we have institutions that are supposed to oversee certain institutions in the Government, they must be given that opportunity to carry out the mandate. Even a Departmental Committee passes a report and it goes to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) who says that he cannot act on Parliamentary recommendations. He still needs the investigative body to come in. Sometimes we ask ourselves why we spend so many hours as oversight authority interviewing people and then the DPP says that he cannot act on the report. Immediately you try to do something, some of them go to court and say there is no mandate. Who has the mandate if you cannot implement what the people’s representatives, through the Kenyan Parliament, have gone through? With those few remarks, I support."
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