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    "id": 976627,
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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": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to join the House in speaking to these very absurd incidences in the counties. Before we even talk about county offices burning, there was a wave of fires in schools. Every other school was going up in smoke and investigations showed that these were acts of arson. It is unbelievable that the fires that have erupted and consumed finance offices in the four counties that have been mentioned. It happened in such a way that no records were left. Why did the fire not erupt, for example, in the office of public works? Why not in the office of public service? Why the finance office? In each of the four counties, the fires are clearly an act of criminal culpability. I want to urge this House and the Committee Chair, Sen. Kinyua, to quickly look at the law and obligate each and every county not to store financial information in hard copies alone. Banks have vaults where they can go and keep their soft copies. In fact, we should obligate each county to have a fireproof strong room where records of finance are kept. What would happen is that thieving governors will just organise and set the finance offices on fire and when they are called here to the CPAIC meeting or DCI, they say: “Our records were burnt; give us the benefit of doubt.” In fact, the DCI should start by dealing with those whose offices burned and proceed to investigate thoroughly to see whether those in very high places or subordinate to them have anything to do with this. I do not believe that a junior officer in the accounts department would commit such an act without conspiring with those who will get the highest level of benefit from such a fire. This could go on and on. You remember when there was a bomb blast next to Central Bank of Kenya; we never heard of records disappearing. The headquarters of the Co-operative Bank was razed down, but we never heard of records disappearing or accounts being lost. Co-operative Bank quickly re-emerged and it is stronger than ever before. Therefore, these acts of reckless arson to destroy records and conceal fraudulent activities in counties must be dealt with by this House and the sooner the better. Kazikwako Bwana Chairman."
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