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    "id": 810214,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "They will never be realised because one acre of land will be costing Kshs239 million. How many houses can you put on that to be able to sell to poor Kenyans? So, it is something that we need action at the highest level in terms of reining in on the officers who were involved in this as the DCI and other agencies also look into this matter. Coming to the recommendations, obviously, I am very happy that the Committee has tried to assign various responsibilities. There is only one or two, specifically the EACC, for all its failings and ills. We know it has had its major failures but on this particular issue, I am actually lost in terms of where they come in within the money payment chain. This money was seen to have been approved within by the accounting officers and they went in to investigate after the money had gone and had been disbursed within the banks. If they are culpable at some point, it will come out. I do not quite agree with Recommendation No. 6 that the EACC should take responsibility for loss of public funds because they are not part of the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) and the payment approval system. Hence, perhaps, we may have overstretched in terms of trying to rein in as many players as possible. Obviously, everyone down the chain, from the person who initiated the transaction to the person who disbursed the money to the banks that have been used in the redistribution of that money, all those people should be investigated by the DCI and then we can see where our Kshs1.5 billion disappeared to and what we have received in return."
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