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    "id": 1034110,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1034110/?format=api",
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Ndaragwa, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Jeremiah Kioni",
    "speaker": {
        "id": 49,
        "legal_name": "Jeremiah Ngayu Kioni",
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    "content": "This is yet another team that feeds into the criminal networks that conceive projects in this country, not for purposes of helping the so-called “hustler nation”, but for purposes of looking for opportunities where they can siphon money. There is a similar case in the leather industry where equipment was bought and part of it is lying at Kariokor and another part at Thika. We have grown our imports in the leather industry from a mere Kshs5 billion sometimes back to now over Kshs39 billion. Instead of the people who import leather into the country using the digital precision cutting machines to create employment that would add up to millions of opportunities for our young people, they end up looking for opportunities to siphon money. They then feed on the same issue by turning the desperation of Kenyans into a political platform. That is what we are good at doing yet we had the opportunity to help them. I believe that money has been siphoned. With regards to the books, they state that 80 per cent of the funds have been disbursed. When you go to the ground, you see that only 49 per cent of the work has been done. Certainly, there will be loss of money at the end of it all. There was a call that the Office of the Auditor-General should carry on from where the previous Auditor-General stopped. This was another good call from the Committee. However, two days ago or last week, the Member for Dagoretti said that the former Auditor-General is also being frustrated yet he is out of office. That also feeds into the corrupt criminal networks because if the current Auditor-General becomes hesitant in carrying out what this Committee has suggested on account that the former one is not getting his dues, we again perpetuate corruption. There is a network. I do not know exactly how they do it because given what we have seen since 2002, it is very difficult to delink politics from corruption. Politicians help in perpetuating corruption because they help in scheming of some of these things. We also have vegetable oil. The vegetable oil industry can create very many jobs in this country. We continue importing vegetable oil in this country. Last year, we did so to the tune of Kshs78 billion. It was Kshs58 billion in the previous year. However, if we just encouraged our people to plant the base that is used in vegetable oil, we would create over 2 million jobs. All these things feed into the corruption networks in this country. I believe it is one of the things that the BBI is trying to sort out by not allowing public servants to implement any other projects before they complete what they had already started."
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