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    "id": 893444,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/893444/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Murkomen",
    "speaker_title": "The Senate Majority Leader",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 440,
        "legal_name": "Onesimus Kipchumba Murkomen",
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    "content": "We have been told in this nation that we cannot criticise public offices such as the Director of criminal investigations (DCI). I am one of the fiercest critics of the conduct and behaviour of our DCI who was a former Kanga Squad leader. I am one of his critics because that office must be run in a manner that appreciates that this nation is based on the rule of law. Can you imagine a DCI posting on Tweeter asking people to tell us whether they have seen vehicles that are supposed to be subject of investigation; vehicles that were supposed to be for the dam projects? Yet, we find out as was reported today that all those vehicles are owned by a Government entity called Rift Valley Water Service Board. They are in a Government yard; a Government body has project vehicles? What kind of mentality is that? Mr. Speaker, Sir, we must, as a country, speak the truth. I like what Sen. Orengo said in court last week that the Office of the DCI has been misused to do targeted investigation. However, when Sen. Murkomen says it, it sounds as if he is a critic of the Government and those kinds of things. I have said and insist that if every citizen of this country who has the courage to criticize and bring out the weaknesses of public offices especially the ones that are most dreaded by citizens of this country, deserve an award. I deserve recognition and an award for standing in the gap and pushing for a better institution of the DCI. I have always said that it is only the guilty that are afraid. However, those of us who have a clear conscience and have never touched any single public funds and have never been accused of misappropriation of any public funds, have the courage to speak in public. We cannot be intimidated, threatened and shouted down because they know our records are clean. It is only until the day you know you put your hand and finger in the cookie jar that you now start to become scared and go around saying that we should defend this office and the other one. I have always asked; if a public officer such as the DCI, IG, EACC or any institution, are doing the right thing, they do not need political support and campaigns. They do not need people to go around the country saying that they support them. In fact, that office is supposed to investigate the same people who are saying that they support it. As a matter of fact, it is important that a certain distance is kept. Mr. Speaker, Sir, secondly, there is an unholy alliance of institutions of oversight in matters of security. I am saying this because the incoming IG will become the boss of the DCI. There is something that started in this country called Multi-Agency Team (MAT) approach that is dealing with investigations. We know very well that our constitutional architecture anticipated a separation of powers. As a very important principle of governance, separation of powers is very important. The Constitution wanted to separate the powers of investigations which is within the docket of the IG where Mr. Mutyambai is coming to preside. The IG is in charge of investigation."
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