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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Kioni",
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        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for granting me this opportunity to contribute. I stand here as a Member of the Committee and support the Report that we did. I want to single out the Chairman for the zeal with which he guided us and was able to obtain documents, and also the clarity and focus that he had through and through. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we continue judging others, because that is what we are doing – it is part of our role – it is important that we know that it is not those whom we are judging that we are defining, but we are actually defining ourselves. As we go through this process, it is important that we know that the only factor or useful thing that should guide us, and the goal that should be in front of us is establishing the truth, and nothing else but the truth. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to support the statements by the Member for Ugenya, who is also the Minister for Lands. It is important that we note that it is just a matter of time before that which we are doing to others can also come and haunt us. It is for that reason that everytime we get to do these things, we need to be very objective and guided by nothing else but by facts. That guided us in our Committee. Mr. Speaker, Sir, perceptions have been used in this country to attain different objectives. We must make sure that the perception of a person coming from this area or the other, does not earn him a tag of being corrupt. We have seen, just like the Minister said, time and again, Members of Parliament, especially Members of the Cabinet, being mentioned but because perhaps a shade of a political divide has no capacity to push as hard as the other, stepping aside has been left a prerogative of one side. It is important that these things cut across the board. It is important they do so."
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