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    "id": 974412,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Omogeni",
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        "legal_name": "Erick Okong'o Mogeni",
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    "content": "in private hospitals while a few of us, who have been privileged to be put in public offices are benefiting from money that is supposed to change the lifestyle of our people. I like the idea of going after the associates of people who may be occupying influential offices because often times, what they do is that they steal through proxies. You will never see assets registered in the name of a certain individual. However, those who are close to them, what these Bill calls associates of these people, will have a lot of assets under them. Let us not just go for the principal only, but also his associates so that we make it impossible and painful for anybody to steal public funds. Finally, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if it is of any comfort, I have seen that this law has put in place a mechanism where those who want to come out in the open and surrender wealth, can also get a plea bargaining agreement whereby, in exchange of prosecution, you surrender that wealth back to the State and you are off the hook. There is a very good procedure that has been put in place so that we ensure that there will be no abuse of power by the people we are entrusting with this task."
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