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    "id": 810224,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wanted that confirmation because there is a further amendment that I had discussed with the Chair which I intend to move tomorrow. I support the proposed amendment by the Chair where she says clearly that it was pursuant to the mood of the House. I clearly shared those views that we should not be seen as a House to be punishing EACC in the course of their work as an investigative agency. Since this matter is still under investigations by the EACC and we are bringing the Directorate of Criminal Investigation into it, it is only right that we are not seen to be asking the EACC to take responsibility. At the end of the day, as Hon. Muhinga has mentioned - Hon. Muhinga is Hon. Amos Muhinga Kimunya - the EACC does not have access to the payment systems of Government. They may not know. I was just sharing with the Vice-Chair of the Committee on a point of information that EACC had initially stopped this payment but then allowed it to continue. Even with that, you must accept that the EACC may also be constrained as to how long they can hold a payment that is due since the Government has the Asset Recovery Unit and other agencies that can recover this money from the people who were paid. Even as I second, let me not get into the other things. I will say them tomorrow as I move the further amendment. I, therefore, wish to support that we expunge the taking of responsibility by the EACC so that we charge the EACC and the DCI to investigate this matter to its logical conclusion and ensure that all the monies that were lost - and not just on this school land because this only covers 13 acres – are recovered. There is also the land that was paid for the General Service Unit that holds the mother title deed. There was compensation on land that was paid by one of the road agencies for the expansion of Outering Road. All those monies should be recovered. I beg to second the amendment."
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