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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Mututho",
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        "legal_name": "John Michael Njenga Mututho",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Subsequently, the Attorney-General was totally handicapped in proceeding with the prosecutions against those thought to be culpable. I want to explain again that the 12 whistle blowers refused to record statements with the police. The Attorney-General, on request, could not constitute a charge sheet because he lacked evidence from the same whistle blowers. This was confirmed by the whistle blowers. More interestingly, some of the complainants whose letters raised these allegations and which were tabled in this House were found to have been members of the SACCO who had various challengers which I will come back to later on. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, at this very early opportunity I would like to state that the Committee found it grossly irregular that somebody by the name J. S. Lagat, whose identity was denied by both whistle blowers, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC) found his way into the precincts of Parliament and placed “urgent” fliers in the pigeon holes used by hon. Members and this House was moved by the “ghost” Mr. Lagat, who until now, in spite of very spirited efforts by the Director of CID, cannot be traced and the police will have again to use miracles to identify who Mr. Lagat is. The big question is; How did Mr. Lagat, a mysterious man, find his way to the pigeon holes in front of the cameras and nobody can trace him to know who he was? Nevertheless, we gave all the benefits to Mr. Lagat’s comments and went ahead and investigated each and every 31 of the allegations that were contained in his letter. Despite these observations by the Committee, it still proceeded with the investigation. We discovered that Mr. Lagat, mysterious as he is, was able to cause the Chair to order this Committee to move with speed within two and three weeks and investigate this matter. We feel, as a Committee that we need to re-organize our information system so that in future--- I am speaking with a lot of information as the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives that it is possible that such a letter could have even contained the anthrax virus which is fatal. We must have security in place so that hon. Members only open mail that is authorized by the Serjeant-At-Arms. I am glad that, on administrative complaints, these days they drop mail to our offices. I hope that the trend will be improved in future because we found that to be gross. The Committee made observations that on allegation of mismanagement, some of the employees were guilty of fraudulent actions and consequently they were discharged or dismissed. Some cases are still pending in court. Among the allegations which were brought here, is that there were death threats. We asked the Director of CID, Mr. Muhoro, and we thank him because we had him for over eight hours to counter-check again whether somebody had recorded statements or complaints in any police station with regard to death threats from Harambee SACCO officials. To the contrary, we found that there was only one complaint by a Mr. Malonza, that some members were threatening his life and not the other way around. That did not corroborate with what we heard in this House that people had died and the police had failed to prosecute."
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