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    "id": 876616,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Kihika",
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        "legal_name": "Susan Wakarura Kihika",
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    "content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also rise to make my comments in support of the Statement that has been brought by the Senate Majority Leader. This issue also affects Nakuru County, considering that Itare Dam is in my County. I am also taken aback by the kind of public relations stunts that we are seeing with the Director of Criminal (DCI), the media and the hype that we are seeing all over the country. I believe and I know that it is time that maybe the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the DCI understood that they cannot be prosecuting cases in the media. We cannot be waking up to read them giving us facts in the newspapers, while we do not see any convictions in the courts of law. Looking at the Statement that the Senate Majority Leader has brought to the Senate, it seems as though what we are reading in the media is different from what is really going on, on the ground. It, therefore, seems as if there is no equal treatment of all the projects across the country, and that there is nothing out of sync with what surrounded the happenings around the dams. I would, therefore, wish to see the DCI doing better investigations; people being taken to court and convictions. We do not just want to wake up to being treated to a media circus by the Kenyan media, which does not seem to have any ethics at some point. They write anything and are not held accountable by anyone or anything; and things just seem to go on from there. You then have us, politicians, shout ourselves hoarse; and without facts, we then have another so called “major scandal” in another two weeks. This does not help anything or go anywhere. Get us convictions, bring the truth out and not just these one-sided, bad intentioned public relations stunts by the agencies that are supposed to be doing the work of fighting corruption. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we all support the fight against corruption that is led by the President, but we also say that is must be done objectively, without subjecting specific people--- I mean, when you wake up and read a newspaper where, if somebody is The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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