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    "id": 696798,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you remember the Report that we adopted here on the National Youth Enterprise Fund, you will realise that investigation officers from the DCI’s Office and the EACC had been on this case. The file was marked “under investigations” for almost a year. It took our Committee less than four months to investigate, delve into the matter of the loss of about Kshs180 million from the Youth Enterprise Fund. We concluded the investigation and tabled a Report in this House. It took about three months for the Report to be debated and adopted by this House. The DCI and the EACC arrested and charged those officers in court after we set timelines in the Report. I must thank them for charging them. However, we are saying that they do not have to wait until Parliament moves in for them to do their work. Parliament is open and our meetings are open. We are inviting them. We have engaged with the offices of the DPP and the DCI to second officers, just like the Inspectorate of State Corporations and the Auditor-General’s Office has officers seconded to the Public Investments Committee (PIC) and PAC. The DCI, the DPP and the EACC can also second their officers to these committees. They can use our meetings to gather evidence so that those contravening the law and those engaging in outright fraud can be arrested from here and taken to court. I hope that with time they will do this."
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