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    "id": 810376,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/810376/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 1835,
        "legal_name": "Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah",
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    "content": "Therefore, it is important for us to ensure that the EACC, which is duly charged to investigate all issues pertaining to corruption, is included in these investigations. I am the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and I received a letter from Harit Sheth Advocates, which I will table. I shared it with the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Lands. It touches on the 96 acres and accuses the Office of the President. I have seen submissions on the media by the Chairman of the National Lands Commission who purports to have the title deed. If you read the Report by this Committee, it is quite clear that the mother title deed of this land is being held by this particular advocate. This matter relates to the land that was sold to GSU. Therefore, I thought it wise for us to incorporate the EACC because, indeed, it has been investigating this matter. If we pass and adopt a Report in this House stating that the DCI should investigate this, we shall inadvertently be taking away work that had already been started by the EACC. I do not know how this would help these investigations. Already investigations are ongoing and a few weeks ago the EACC forwarded a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) who sent it back to them. Therefore, if we pull that file away from them, we are not doing justice to these investigations. Our work as a House should not be prejudicial to the work of any other investigative agency. The House has done its bit through the Committee. Therefore, I am pleading that we include the EACC as part of these investigations. I will table this letter in as much as I had shared it with the Committee. It clearly shows that this matter is not just about the 13 acres, but more. It is not about payment of Kshs1.5 billion but, payment to the OP for the GSU land of Kshs1.2 billion. This amount had already been paid and they are claiming payment of a further Ksh671 million. If you can remember, I moved an amendment in this House during the Supplementary Budget on the GSU land, which has landed me in a lot of problems. I disapproved the payment of Ksh1.5 billion and vetoed the further payment of Kshs1.7 billion. I can tell you after that, the kind of barrage I had on social media and other fora because of that amendment has been mean. However, when His Excellency the President spoke here during the State of the Nation Address, he was quite clear. He asked Members of this House to join him in the fight against corruption and this House took that call in the literal meaning that we will join him in the fight against corruption. I moved that amendment to disapprove the payment. You remember saying on this Floor that if the Budget and Appropriations Committee approved the payment of this Kshs1.5 billion under Article 223 of the Constitution and then we get this kind of Report from the Departmental Committee on Lands, as a House, we will be sanitising a process that was already under investigation by the Departmental Committee on Lands and another Committee in the Senate and also one that was still under investigations by the EACC. Why some characters would choose to use bloggers on social media to fight me on account of doing my work in supporting the President in his call for this House to support his fight against corruption defeats any logic and sense."
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