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    "id": 1065940,
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    "speaker_name": "Sen. Wetangula",
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    "speaker": {
        "id": 210,
        "legal_name": "Moses Masika Wetangula",
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    "content": "In Korea, four former presidents are in jail. One drove to a seaside and leapt from a cliff into the sea and died because they were about to arrest and take him to court. When we look at our country, the richest people in Kenya are former or current civil servants. If you want to be rich quickly, you do not have to run your law firm, Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki. Go and be a procurement manager in some innocuous organization and procure for yourself every day. We must strengthen the institutions of governance. This country is not poor, but very rich. I do not agree with Sen. Cherargei that we are under receivership. We are not. This country is rich but its wealth must be managed properly. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we must demolish bastions and hideouts of criminals who do not distinguish between public and private resources so that our children can go to schools, our women can have water in their houses, so that we can put food on the table and drive on good roads and our police are paid well. They should not assume that being put at a roadblock is a license to pick money from motorists. Members of Parliament should not investigate public servants with an agenda of being paid to let them go. We have repeatedly been bastardising the police for corruption. Corruption is domiciled in Parliament. Today, governors who come to appear before committees of this House come smiling and leave smiling. This is dangerous for our country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as we amend this Constitution, we must also address the issues that have condemned certain regions to endemic poverty. If we know we are allocating resources to electoral areas--- I agree with the President who said he wanted to see money in wards and constituencies. We then create 70 new constituencies and some regions do not get any. It means that the areas getting those constituencies are the ones given additional resources and those that are not getting are being denied resources. The centerpiece of the Constitution 2010, as I have said over and over again, was equity and fairness for the people of the Republic of Kenya. It will remain so. It does not matter at what stage we amend our Constitution. If we lose sight of fairness and equity, we are laying ground for a distorted future for our country."
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