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    "id": 748825,
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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ng’ongo",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 110,
        "legal_name": "John Mbadi Ng'ong'o",
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    "content": "and the EACC. Some of the matters were already in court. A Committee of Parliament had to go an extra mile to dig deep and unearth some of the people who had not been found culpable. So, we had to do extra work as a Committee and we needed more time. We interviewed witnesses. Even some bank staff appeared before us. Above all, this Report was presented to this House way before the so-called party primaries. I have heard some people who have no information commenting that probably we have brought this Report just after some of the individuals mentioned adversely in this Report have gone through what they call a nomination process, and they have been voted to run as candidates in certain counties. Far from it. The truth is that we finished our Report before we knew who would be candidate for which party. What happened is that this Report was brought to this House but the debate was prioritised for yesterday. It had nothing to do with the Committee but it had a lot to do with the HBC and how it prioritises its activities. If there is any shameful theft - theft that this country should really be ashamed of that it could take place in this century in this country - it is the one of the NYS. There was no attempt at all to hide this theft. This is a group of individuals who acted out of impunity. Theysat somewhere and organised themselves. In fact, this was a group of gangs who were placed in very important positions of leadership in this country. It is unfortunate that we had this category of people. If you hear confessions from some witnesses on how meetings were held--- I have never heard of any institution in this country where a meeting is called and you are told: “There is an LPO here. Take it, go and see what to do with it.” The bottom line is the lady called “Kabura” who was purportedly supplying NYS with some items. She was being called mostly on Sundays and told: “This week, we have an order for Kshs200 million and this is the LPO or LSO.” The lady had no clue. She was being told that that was the order, she waits for two or three days and money will go to her account so that she could supply what she wanted. You saw that lady confess that she was going to the bank and carrying money in bags. At one point, we realised that the money she claimed to have carried herself from the bank in sacks amounted to the weight of 100 litres. Imagine 100 litres of water is equivalent to five jericans containing 20 litres each. I wonder who in this world can carry money equivalent to the weight of five jericans containing 20 litres of water each from a bank. Obviously, this money never left the bank. The money was being divided right inside the bank. I have brought this just to demonstrate to this country the kind of evidence that was placed before us. This lady called “Anne Waiguru” who has been glorified a lot, to me, and I want to be very forthright and very categorical, was the architect of this theft. This is the lady who we had various witnesses mentioning that she is the one who even initiated and engineered the registration of companies for one Josephine Kabura. If you look at that lady, I know looks can be deceptive, but honestly you do not expect her to craft the theft of that magnitude. This lady could register companies. I want to give you examples. A company was being registered today and the following day it has an LSO. The company opened an account with a bank it had never had an account with and two days later money - Kshs50 million or Kshs100 million - goes into that account and the following day the entire amount is withdrawn from that account in cash. And this money is carried in sacks! It is clear there was somebody high up who was very influential who helped that lady to open those accounts. If you ask her she will tell you: “It was Anne Waiguru who even suggested the names of the companies that I was supposed to use.” 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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