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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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        "legal_name": "Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot",
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    "content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to also share my thoughts on this brilliant work done by our colleagues in the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments (CPAIC). Despite all the tribulations and the things that have been said about you, I want to say that, on this one, you have navigated smoothly and well. You are a good driver, Senator for Homa Bay. I want to congratulate you because this is a matter of extreme public interest. Many people were looking at the Senate wondering if we would be able to live up to our billing as being the House of order and honour by doing the kind of work that you have done. I have read through almost 100 plus point by point issues, the way you have brought them out in your Report. I must commend you and wish that we could perhaps have the same kind of expose in many of the CPAIC issues especially things to do with how public funds are spent in counties so that we get to debate matters to finality and with better information. I know it is never an easy thing to do the right thing in this country because many a time we have been told that corruption fights back. When you try to do the kind of thing that CPAIC was doing, allegations are bound to be made, mud is bound to be thrown your way and the kind of things that we have heard about this Committee are bound to come out. Therefore, I commend you. I have read through the recommendations about how taxpayers’ money was fraudulently lost and how these institutions – the two schools involved in this saga – ended up losing their land and having to buy it back, of course being paid through taxpayers’ money. I want to proceed further and say that there are maybe one or two things that are still not clear in my mind. Sen. Moses Kajwang’, I do not want to take the shine off you at this particular moment and the kind of work that you have done. I agree with you entirely that the Kshs1.5 billion must be reverted to taxpayers. On that one, I am with you 100 per cent. However, you know the philosophy of law is that you would rather have 99 criminals roaming around in the streets than one innocent man being sent to jail."
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