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    "id": 974475,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/974475/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "I want you to vary your Bill to make KRA a constant complainant against persons they think that are living beyond their means; their tax returns look good but they do not look believable; somebody is buying a new car every other month; but his company is incurring loses year-in, year out. Every year, he is acquiring new real estate and that his company’s returns show that he is in the negative and in the red throughout. So, such will then make KRA a complainant and the false information given in the returns will be part of the evidence that the Commission can use to pursue the offending party. I want to encourage her to remove KRA from here and leave them with their core mandate and where they have an issue against any one of us, let them complain to the necessary commission. Secondly, the issue of auditing people’s lives is already provided for in the Ethics Law, filing returns and so on. I want her to refine this law, and I will help her where necessary so that we have one centre of operation, that when people are not able to explain their wealth, we only go to one place for action. I will tell you why. Knowing how this country operates, the State can vindictively embark on harassing and destroying people, tell the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) to audit your style, keep you busy, freeze your accounts and do everything, and when they finish and find nothing, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) comes in on somebody’s instigation. For another year or two, they will keep you busy, freezing your accounts, searching everything, and once they finish, a third commission comes in. Unless you want to say - which will not be very good in law – that when one authority has done a certain audit, the others are precluded from doing the same. In law, we normally say, “ autrefois acquit\" or “ autrefois convict.” If you have been convicted for an offense, you cannot be charged with the same offence; you will waive the conviction or acquittal, and it is a bar to further prosecution."
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