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    "id": 685638,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Keynan",
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        "id": 41,
        "legal_name": "Adan Wehliye Keynan",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will never say that my good friend, and former schoolmate, has stolen but I expect him to use his position to defend the rights of the youth of the Republic of Kenya. This was not only a conspiracy but outright theft of public funds. It was a conspiracy involving three individuals – a court jester called Dominic Bruce Odhiambo, a lady called Catherine Namuye and a conman by the name of Mukuria Ngamau. First, they convened a Board meeting and obtained the minutes. They later on tampered with those minutes in order to have an individual as the sole signatory to a bank account of an entity of the Government of Kenya. Where on earth does that happen? Even in privately owned companies, you do not allow an individual to be the sole signatory to a bank account. They opened a fixed deposit account with Chase Bank and put in money that was legitimately set aside by the Government for lending out to the youth in order to engage them in economic activities. The money was tied in a fixed deposit account – something which the culprits were not authorised to do. They eventually used that money to award a contract to a purported consultant for services which did not exist. One of the things that somebody alluded to, which we later realized was correct, was that the company that was purposed to have provided the ICT consultancy services did not exist. In fact, one of the persons mentioned, Mr. Reeve, died a long time ago. When we dug into the background of Mr. Reeve, we discovered that he was a church person. I am not sure he even had a computer. When we asked them to show us how much they transferred, we were told that the money was wired through a locally-owned bank. We went to the bank and they said that they never had such an account. There was so much cash paid out at the counter. Eventually, we did something that no other Committee in the legislative history of Parliament has ever done. We went out of our way to check the cash-flow. We realised that part of the proceeds of this money was used to buy a very luxurious apartment in Lavington. We told the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) that the cash that was used by Mr. Ngamau was from the YEDF. We asked them to seize the assets, arrest the culprits and take them to court. It is like the DCI officers were following us. They were waiting for us to make a decision. On the day after the accounts had been emptied, the DCI got a prohibition order from court. The account was empty and the money was gone. What would you do? 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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