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    "id": 1058130,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko",
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    "content": "transparency, accountability, the supreme audit institutions and public awareness. These audits are done on behalf of the public, be the audit initiated by the audit institutions such as the Auditor-General or be finalized by Senate or Parliament. If there is no interest or passion and the public out there do not know about it, you will find that the overall accountability that is done every five years when elections come, does not yield result. The public out there is unaware of who misused their money and who is not performing. They, unfortunately, keep on voting the same corrupt characters whose names litter every page of the Senate, National Assembly or county assembly reports. Some of these charlatans are bogeymen who take public money. They can only ultimately be ashamed and removed from office by the public when an opportunity to vote ensues. When the public is not aware and when leadership of such institutions like the one to which we belong do not attend and passionately speak about these matters, when the newspapers ignore, but we speak about some statements that are made here passionately about wheelbarrows and other things, we really lose it. The purpose for which governments were set up was to have law and order, justice, and also to offer critical services that individuals cannot offer to themselves, but collectively be offered by institutions headed by people mandated by the public. That is the primary function for which government was formed and it is sum total. The absence of good governors is total disorder. It is like the Hobbesian disorder that would make life brutal and short, but nobody wants that. Ultimately, it is the public that puts people in office. Without adequate and accurate information, I can assure you one day this country will have the worst thug for president, the worst thug for premiership and the worst thugs for governors. When you have thugs with power and resources, the intensity and level of thuggery will be so much that the courts will be unable to deal with. It will be so much that the police will not be able to deal with. Even those institutions are so pervasive that they will appoint thugs for the DCI, thugs for the EACC and a thug for the Chief Justice. It will be a coalition of thugs. We will have Parliament, the Executive and the Judiciary that will be full of thugs. We may think that because we have the privilege of being in offices, we will be immune from such thuggery. You will leave office and be an ordinary person. In your own village, thugs will be in charge. So, we must take this work seriously, particularly the aspect of implementation. This Report, like all other reports, has amplified problems that keep recurring year in, year out. There are problems of pending bills and non-payment of suppliers that have generally contributed to poverty, impecunity and suffering that is all engulfing. The churches are now poor. They are literally begging for money from thugs and thieves. They have lost their spiritual and moral righteousness. They preach the gospel of the rich and fail to point out---"
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