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    "id": 816224,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu East, Independent",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Shakeel Shabbir",
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        "legal_name": "Ahmed Shakeel Shabbir Ahmed",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to declare that I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Finance and Planning. I am also the Chair of the African Parliamentarians against Corruption (APNAC). We have not accused Ben Chumo of any crime. We have said that the allegations that are there put a mark and raised a question. The position he is seeking demands that he should be beyond reproach. What do we mean by “beyond reproach”? Those who have not read the history of Caesar should know that they started slandering Caesar’s wife that she did A, B, C. Caesar called his wife and she denied everything. She could prove it but Caesar said: “Because you are the wife of Caesar, you must be beyond reproach.” This gentleman is not beyond reproach. One thing we have not said here is the same gentleman has been charged in a court of law on a matter of procurement while he was the Chair of Egerton University. He did not disclose that and yet it is a fact. So, the situation is that this gentleman may be very intelligent and may have great academic qualifications but in a position that requires him to be beyond reproach, he does not qualify. He should be patriotic. He should have come and withdrawn his candidature. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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