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    "id": 645087,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/645087/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Dido",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 2749,
        "legal_name": "Col (Rtd) Ali Rasso Dido",
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    "content": "Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I also wish to add my voice to what is happening in our financial sector. At the heart of the Kenyan financial sector are our banks. This tells a lot about the health of the Kenyan economy and finances. We must proceed particularly in terms of legislation and the judicial review, to bring the culprits to book. We cannot allow hard earned cash and people’s life-long savings to be taken away by individuals. In China, if you are involved in an economic crime, the sentence you will face is death. In Kenya, once you take huge amounts of cash, like the Kshs8 billion that certain individuals have taken away from banks, the first thing you do is to rush to court to block prosecution. That is why the poor become poorer as criminals grow richer in this country. The Government must step in. We have heard what the Leader of the Majority Party has said, but the Government cannot put that issue at the doorstep of CBK and leave it there. The Government must step in and ensure that our people do not lose their hard earned savings. 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."
}