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    "id": 1014370,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Shinyalu, ODM",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Justus Kizito",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 71,
        "legal_name": "Justus Kizito Mugali",
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    "content": " Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This is a very important Committee and I want to support my colleagues who have said so. Whatever we pass in this House must be implemented to the letter. Therefore, I would like to ask the Chairpersons of Committees to take it upon themselves and follow up on what is passed in the Committees so that it is implemented. This is a House of Representatives. We represent Kenyans. At the same time, it is the House that handles money bills, appropriation bills and even gives authority to incur expenses and the budget itself. This House has been given the responsibility to deal with matters that concern corruption through its three very important Committees. That is the Special Funds Accounts Committee which deals with all the funds in this country, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that deals with the mainstream expenditures and accounts and the Public Investments Committee (PIC) which deals with parastatals and Government investments. More often than not, these Committees have done very good recommendations on matters to do with graft and Parliament is another arm that is supposed to help the other arms of Government that deal with graft. However, more often than not, I have seen very good recommendations especially from PAC, PIC and the Special Funds Accounts Committee, but I have never seen the DCI of this nation following them up and picking them to investigate, prosecute and actually convict the people who participate in graft and criminal activities of that nature. We have seen a lot of drama out there. I can say that, that is why it is not easy for this Government to convict a single person who has engaged in graft or corruption. I can remember there are quite a number of people who have been there in offices, but we have never seen them actually prosecuting anything. It is because they leave Parliament out. Whatever we pass here, they do not take it up and they want us to do drama and run up and down taking people to court and, at the end of the day, there is no evidence. We have a lot of evidence here that can be used. If the Committee on Implementation can be followed up and we follow on our recommendations, it is very possible that we can be able to cut down on this. This is because Parliament as an arm of the Government has actually been let down."
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