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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Gilgil, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Martha Wangari",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also want to join in supporting this nomination. It is quite a timely one. In fact, I was discussing with Hon. Rasso here and we were saying, maybe, the Committee members would have even signed the Report. It looks hurriedly done. It does not have signatures of the people who supported so that we can tell exactly who did what. Anyway, the credentials and adherence to the law look okay. But, I will not go to that because they interrogated it. I will go to what is likely to face Mbarak when and if he is appointed. The cancer in the EACC is not outside. He must, first of all, deal with it from inside. I hope he has the courage because this is one institution over which we have looked outside for divine intervention. We have even put a retired Archbishop to be the Chairman. I hope he will have the courage to interrogate from inside and root out what exactly makes EACC not to move. More importantly, even as we liaise with the DPP, the major source of information and whoever is supposed to be witness number one should be the EACC. We must look at how we do our things and how EACC does its things. Why do I say that? It is not just about raiding and carrying cameras to be seen when you have raided an institution, a house, a member or a private member. It is about getting the evidence. I hope this man, because he has done a lot in private investigation, will be an asset to, first of all, gather enough evidence so that we can have watertight cases that can be prosecuted. That is so that we are able to get convictions. Otherwise, it will just be a show and we will end up gracing the newspapers and that will be it. On another issue, we have had the outgoing CEO, Halakhe Waqo. We need to look at the output. How much has the EACC, together with the Assets Recovery Agency, been able to 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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