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    "id": 896205,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Garissa Township, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Aden Duale",
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        "legal_name": "Aden Bare Duale",
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    "content": "a hundred times, that will not make me guilty. The President said that we should fight the war against corruption with facts, evidence and allow the investigative agencies, which are only answerable to this House - the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), in my opinion, is not answerable to the Senate - to do their work. The EACC, the Directorate of Public Prosecutions (DPP) are answerable to the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs and its Members, on behalf of the 349 of us. They appropriate money on their behalf or give them more resources in consultation with the National Treasury. They oversee them also. In the Constitution, the people of Kenya deliberately created offices that are answerable to Parliament like the Office of the Auditor-General, the Office of Controller of Budget, the EACC, the DPP and the Inspector General of Police. Those offices are independent and must maintain it. They must also deal with corruption in all its forms and present evidence and facts for people to get convicted. Let me give an example. The media wrote that Kshs9 billion was lost in the NYS. Today, the people charged in court are only accused of stealing not less than Kshs67 million. So, the question is what happened to the Kshs8.4 billion. We expect people to be taken to court over the loss of Kshs9 billion. When you say that it was lost, you fall within the definition of jungle vigilante and a Member of Parliament cannot be put in that bracket. Vigilantes are not very good people as you know. Hon. Baya knows what vigilante means at the Coast."
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