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    "id": 1010456,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kisumu CWR, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. (Ms.) Rozaah Buyu",
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        "legal_name": "Rozaah Akinyi Buyu",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon Speaker for giving me this opportunity. At the outset, I support the Motion of adoption of the PIC Committee. I support this Report because most recently, Members have been crying that reports that come to this House fall short of recommending possible actions that can be taken so that the reports are seen to move forward and take the country to a better place. Hon Speaker, the only Committee that has been bold enough to mention names of persons who have been found responsible for certain action in its findings and Reports is the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources. Today I support this Motion because it takes the bull by the horns. It is not good enough to allow corruption to take place and then when the country has lost huge sums of money, people are taken to court and no action is taken against them. Hon. Speaker, the Committee is bold enough to point out persons who they think are not adhering to good practices in the positions that they hold. A Member actually mentioned that neglecting advice from such constitutional bodies that have spent so much money… To ignore advice from the Auditor-General and the Attorney-General is to undermine those offices. If you undermine advice of a body that is mandated to ensure that we have good governance, you must be held culpable. Recently, the President directed companies to openly declare anybody who has applied for open tenders, how much they have tendered on such tenders and who has eventually been given the tender. His action was not in vain. It arose from the kind of actions that we have seen from the authorities in KEBS. People who have previously been fraudulent, who should not be wining any tender, were awarded a tender despite the fact that they have obvious shortfalls. That is an act that must be punished. Therefore, I commend the Committee for being bold and for taking Kenya forward in the sense that they have noticed that it is better to nip corruption in the bud as opposed to waiting for corruption to take place and spend huge sums of money trying to bring people to book."
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