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    "id": 810381,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/810381/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Tharaka, DP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. George Murugara",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "George Gitonga Murugara",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to second the proposed amendment to the Report. It is vitally important that Kenyans appreciate that the EACC has investigative powers conferred and vested upon it by both the Constitution and the statute, namely, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act. There are some jitters every time it is mentioned that the EACC should be moving into some matter and most Kenyans suddenly become interested and try to use arguments like “EACC is not an investigative agency”. There have even been attempts to amend our law so that the EACC is removed as one of the named investigative agencies in the country. The correct position - and this House must uphold the law at all times - is that the EACC is one of the investigative agencies in the country. Therefore, it must be accorded due respect and the terms of reference conferred on it by the law so that it is allowed at all times to do the work it is supposed to do. So, in view of this and in view of the Report we have with us which says that investigations will continue with only one arm of the investigative agencies, it is important that we make the amendment and we name the EACC as the agency that will continue with investigations from where they have reached. With those remarks, I wish to second and support the proposed amendment."
}